Conclusion of Rhetorical Devices.pptVIP

Simile So does an attitude which sees the public only in terms of large, malleable numbers — as impersonally as does the clattering subway turnstile beneath the office towers.(para12) Men and women do their jobs professionally, and, like the pilots who from great heights bombed Hanoi, seem unmarked by it. Metaphor While sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, … preempt the airways from California.(para.3) Comparing the sitcoms to plants or animals. Alliteration Metaphor … sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, … preempt the airways from California.(para.3) Metonymy New York was never Mecca to me. (para.7) Mecca standing for a holly place. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood.(para.3) “Tin Pan Alley” standing for “the center of popular music” Personification Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against encroaching cement and petrol fumes. (para.8) “Nature” and “sidewalk trees” treated as human beings. Irony So what else is new?(para.16) Implying nothing new in what you say. Euphemism the defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town. ( para.18) “wrong side” for slum or ghettoes. Transferred epithet The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the city’s crowds below cuts these people off from humanity.(para.12) Actually, “condescending” is used for human being, but here for view. * * Use of various rhetorical devices: Simile Metaphor Alliteration Metonymy Synecdoche Personification Irony Euphemism Transferred epithet Parallelism Onomatopoeia Paregmenon So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shut out the world.(para.16) Comparing the living area of the rich to an enclave. New York was never Mecca to me.(para.7) Comparing N.Y. to Mecca. Synecdoche So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shut out the world.(para.16) “wel