Identifying Seven Rhetorical Devices (2003)
based on original texts used in NEUTERING EXERCISES
Part A

part a
part b
part c



Patrick Wilson

tricolon: "As a trend, As a friend, As an old memoria" ("Come as you are").

Polyptoton: "And the dreams that you dare to dream" ("Over the Rainbow")

Anaphora: " As I want you to be/ As a friend..." ("Come as you are")

Ellipsis: "Took my time, took my chances" ("Eye of the Tiger")

Apostrophe: "Spade! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands" (Wordsworth).

Rhetorical question: "Birds fly over the rainbow/ Why, Oh why can't I/ If happy little bluebirds fly above the rainbow/ Why, Oh why can't I. ("Over the Rainbow").

Diacope: "We eat and work out. Then we eat. Then we work out. Then we eat some more" (Ken Shamrock).

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Allison Johansen

I chose my own poem "The Lamb"

1.Hypophora
"Dost thou know who made thee?
Little Lamb I'll tell thee."

2.Rhyme
"Mild...Child"

3.Anaphora
"He is meek & He is mild"

4.Alliteration
"Little Lamb"

5.Paromoisosis
"He became a little child;
I a child and thou a lamb"

6.Epithet
"wooly bright"

7.Epimone
"Little Lamb who made thee?" used 3x

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Julia Dorsey

1. There is end Rhyme throughout William Wordswroth's ode. "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
2. Apostrophe Ninth stanza of Samuel Coleridge's "Christabel" "Jesus, Maria, shield her well!"
3. Apostrophe "The Sick Rose" by William Blake "Oh Rose, thou art sick!"
4. Allusion "The Lamb" by William Blake" "Little Lamb God bless thee."
5. Simile "All the World's a Stage" by William Shakespeare "creeping like snail"
6. Alliteration "The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" "no,nor/ truly:these/ man might/ within which/ These but the trappings"
7. Assonance "Somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond" by E. E. Cummings "Experience, your eyes have their silence"

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Laura Morrison

1. The device used is commonplace.
"There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight"
From "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
William Wordsworth

2. The device used is complex sentence.
"She embraced her body beneath her cloak,
And stole to the other side of the oak."
From "Christabel"
Samuel Coleridge

3. The device used is antihimera.
"What sees she there?"
From "Christabel"
Samuel Coleridge

4. The device used is hysteron proteron.
"Turn wheresoe'er I may" and
"By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more."
From "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
William Wordsworth

5. The device used is running style.
"There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;-
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more."
From "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
William Wordsworth
6. The device used is simple sentence.
"Hush, beating heart of Christabel!"
From "Christabel"
Samuel Coleridge

7. The device used is testimony.
"There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;-
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more."
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
William Wordsworth


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Susann Wright

1"The Sick Rose"

"Oh Rose, thou art sick! 1. Love has gone bad"-(Crot).

2 "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

"If happy little bluebirds fly above the rainbow why, oh why can’t I?-(Concession)

3 "Eye of the Tiger"

"Had the guts got the glory"-(Figures of speech)

4 "Taking Aspirin"

"I wash you on your way"-(Personification)

5 "Who walk in radiance"-(Metaphor)

6 "To Helen"

"On desperate seas long wont to raom"-(Hyperbation)

7 "Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face"-(Asiatic).

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Danielle Martin

Hypophora: “What is there in hte great sphere of the earth,/ And range
of evil between death and birth,/ That I should fear, - if I were loved
by thee?/ All the inner, all the outer world of pain/ Clear Love would
pearce and cleave, if thou wert mine,” Tennyson “But Were I Loved”

Chiasmus: “The things which I have seen I now can see no more”
Wordsworth “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”

Malapropism: “Here’s health to you. I wash you on your way.” X. J.
Kennedy “Taking Aspirin”

Antithesis: “The choice is yours, don’t be late” Nirvana “Come as you
are”

Litote: “Love is not love/ Which alters when it alteration finds”
Shakespear Sonnet 116

Accumulation: “Nor customary suits of solemn black,/ Nor windy
suspiration of forced breath,/ No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,/
Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,” The Trajedy of Hamlet: Prince
of Denmark

Anadiplosis: “Blue birds fly/Birds fly over the raindbow” E. Y.
Harburg “Over the Rainbow”

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Shannon Brinkley

Metaphor

All the world's a stage

(Shakespeare, All the World’s a Stage, line 1)



Allegory

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

(Shakespeare, All the World’s a Stage)



Epithet

the “whining schoolboy”

(Shakespeare, All the World’s a Stage, line 7)



Diacope

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. 

(Shakespeare, All the World’s a Stage, line 28)


Simile

“Then the whining schoolboy… creeping like snail…”

“And then the lover, Sighing like furnace…”

(Shakespeare, All the World’s a Stage, lines 7-8 and 8-9)



Alliteration

“a world too wide
For his shrunk shank”

(Shakespeare, All the World’s a Stage, lines 22-23)


Anaphora



'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage…

(Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Act I, Scene ii, lines 2-6)

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