Rhetorical
Style/Strategies
Rhetoric:
Nonfiction:
- narration:
- description:
- exposition:
- persuasion:
Genres of…
- autobiography/biography:
- diary:
- letter/epistle:
- essay:
- speech/sermon:
Structure/Organization/Patterns/Arrangement
of…
- (narration:)
- (description:)
- illustration:
- definition:
- classification/division:
- cause and effect:
situation
- compare and contrast:
- process analysis:
- order of importance (chronological, climatic, spatial):
- anecdote:
- digression/aside:
- concession:
- apostrophe:
- analogy
o
metaphor:
o
simile:
- personification:
- synechdoche:
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metonymy:
- euphemism:
- pun:
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allusion:
- images vs. details:
- symbol
o
motif:
o
archetype:
-
irony:
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litotes:
- Subject
- Occasion
- Audience
- Purpose
- Speaker
- Style
- point of view:
- mood/atmosphere:
- shift:
- attitude:
- tone: