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

part a
part b
part c

Andres Escolar

ENTHYMEME
“I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger…”
I Hope You Dance, Lee Ann Womack

HYPERBOLA
“…May you never take one single breath for granted…”
I Hope You Dance, Lee Ann Womack

ANAPHORA
“…I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens…”
I Hope You Dance, Lee Ann Womack

HOMOIOITELEUTON
“…Livin’ might mean takin’ chances but hey’re worth takin’,
Lovin’ might be a mistake but it’s worth makin’…”
I Hope You Dance, Lee Ann Womack

“…I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean…”
I Hope You Dance, Lee Ann Womack

ISOCOLON
“…Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens…”
I Hope You Dance, Lee Ann Womack

ASSONANCE
“…Give thee life and bid thee feed…”
The Lamb, William Blake

ANADIPLOSIS
“…Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas

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Jason Adkins

1. metaphor
“boats of the blood” from "Taking Aspirin" by X. J. Kennedy 

2. paranomasia
“Bayer-assed” from "Taking Aspirin" by X. J. Kennedy 

3. alliteration 
“Here's health to you” from "Taking Aspirin" by X. J. Kennedy 

4. similie
“But I hung on like death:” from "My Papa’s Waltz" by Theodore Roethke

5. energia
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year. from Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

6. tricolon
“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,” from William Wordsworth's
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"


7. parison
“It’s the eye of the Tiger”
”It’s the thrill of the fight” from “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor

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Betty Smalls

1. The Sick Rose
Allegory
Entire passage
William Blake
2. The Lamb
Epimone
Line 11&12
William Blake
3. All The World’s A stage
Metaphor
All the worlds a stage
William Shakespeare
4. Sonnet 116
Polyptoton
Love is not love
William Shakespear
5. The Lamb
Hypophora
Line 9 & 11
William Blake
6. I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died
Litotes
I heard a fly buzz when I died
Emily Dickinson
7. Over The Rainbow
Analogy
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
E.Y. Harburg

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Amber Clark

I found this neat function on Word - a highlighter!-
and used it to point out some of the examples. I do
not know if it will transfer, though - we'll see...

Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Alliteration -- Let me not to the marriage of true
minds
Admit impediments.
-- Love's not Time's fool, though
rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's
compass come;

Allusion -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.
Here, a reference to a marriage ceremony, when the
audience/congregation is asked to speak if they know
of any reason the two (bride and groom) should not
marry.

Assonance -- It is the star to every wandering bark
-- Within his bending sickle's compass come

Antithesis -- Love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge
of doom.
-- Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark
I think it is safe to assert that the heart of the
poem lies in antithesis. Here are a couple of
specific examples: “Love is not… O, no! it is…” and
“Love alters not… But bears…”
Shakespeare makes numerous references to ‘how love
goes wrong’, as well as exemplifying the ways in which
it is true. He seems to be explaining that, though
people may believe they are in love (in friendship or
romance), if their ‘love’ possesses any of these signs
(alters, bends, shakes or ages) it is not true love,
they are mistaken.




Metaphor -- It is the star to every wandering bark,
Every ship, especially when it is lost, needs a star
to guide its way. Shakespeare likens love to that
star of salvation, the “ever-fixed mark” on which we
can rely for guidance, be it through the seas or
through life.

Personification -- That looks on tempests and is never
shaken
-- Love's not Time's fool,
Love does not look upon storms and become frightened,
as would a small child in the ‘face’ of a
thunderstorm. Nor is love made a fool by time: here,
time is personified as an agent that takes away
certain characteristics or values so that the person
is made a type of fool. So time, which Shakespeare
awards the human power of making a fool of another, is
not able to make a fool of love. Hence, love is also
personified as he contemplates, and denies, the
possibility of love being made into a fool. By
declaring that love is beyond the grasp of time,
Shakespeare is suggesting that love is an eternal,
rather than an earthly phenomenon.

Polyptoton --. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to
remove

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