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  2. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    The rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse) are a broad traditional classification of the major kinds of formal and academic writing (including speech-writing) by their rhetorical (persuasive) purpose: narration, description, exposition, and argumentation.

  3. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.

  4. Rhetorical device - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a perspective, using language designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action.

  5. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Henry Peacham, for example, in his The Garden of Eloquence (1577), enumerated 184 different figures of speech. Professor Robert DiYanni, in his book Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay [8] wrote: "Rhetoricians have catalogued more than 250 different figures of speech, expressions or ways of using words in a nonliteral sense."

  6. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as".A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms.

  7. Modes of persuasion - Wikipedia

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    This process gets its name because speakers need to use the correct words during a speech so their audience correctly understands their message. If a speaker wants to use a specific word, slang, or metaphor, he/she needs to do a lot of research on his/her audience's background to understand the values and knowledge of their audience to persuade ...

  8. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Antanaclasis – a figure of speech involving a pun, consisting of the repeated use of the same word, each time with different meanings. Anticlimax – a bathetic collapse from an elevated subject to a mundane or vulgar one. Antimetabole – repetition of two words or short phrases, but in reversed order to establish a contrast.

  9. Rhetorical operations - Wikipedia

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    [19] Amplification was considered at different times in history "a subset of both inventio and dispositio." [19] Aristotle mentions in The Poetics "maximizing and minimizing" as important elements in relation to amplification. [19] This is similar to the way we commonly think of amplification; that is going from something smaller and being ...