Writing with Clarity and Style: A Guide to Rhetorical Devices for Contemporary WritersHarris provides a set of practical tools for making writing clear, interesting, and effective, whatever the subject or audience. This books will add the life, freshness and texture that will make your writing appealing. |
Contents
Emphasis I | 11 |
Demetrius on Beginning and Ending Stress | 18 |
Transition | 29 |
Copyright | |
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adjective alliteration allusion anacoluthon anadiplosis analogy anaphora Anastrophe answer anthimeria antimetabole antithesis apophasis Aporia appositive assonance asyndeton attention audience beginning catachresis Chapter Chiasmus clarity clause Compare conduplicatio consonance construction context contrast create Demetrius diacope discussion distinctio effect emphasis epanalepsis epistrophe epizeuxis Exercise expletive expression feel following example following sentences hyperbaton hypophora Hypotaxis idea implied important improve linking word litotes logical look Match the rhetorical meaning metabasis metanoia Metaphor 6.3 metonymy Note noun onomatopoeia oxymoron paragraph parallelism Parataxis personification polysyndeton present procatalepsis produce prose reader repeated words repetition Restatement Review Questions Revise Rewrite the following rhetorical devices scesis onomaton Section sense sentence contains short sentence simile sound stressed structure Style Check Example subject and image substituted Syllepsis symploce synecdoche tence term thought tion transferred epithet transitions underlined words verb visual word or phrase Write a sentence zeugma