ENGL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Helen Keller, Blunderbuss, Assonance
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Onomatopoeia: the sound of the word imitates the sound of the thing. Anaphora: a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive phrase, clauses or lines. Let us march to the realization of the american dream. Let us march on ballot boxes. (martin luther king, jr. ) Antimetabole: the repetition of certain words, but in reversed order. Niccolo machiavelli asked whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved. Climax/gradation: (greek for ladder), arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of ascending power. Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (shakespeare, twelfth night). Rhetorical devices can be found on a few levels: sound, word, and sentence/phrase. Alliteration: the same sound is repeated at the beginning of several words or stressed syllables in close proximity. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. (helen.
