literarydevices

Ex:The little kid goes to the park The park was the place where the kid went.
 * Restatement**: repeating an idea in a variety of ways

Ex:The little kid goes to the park. So after the little kid goes to the park, he will go home.
 * Repetition**: restating an idea using the same words

Ex:"**In a democracy** //we are all equal before the law//. **In a dictatorship** //we are all equal before the police//." ([|Fernandes])
 * Parallelism**: repeating grammatical structures

Ex:"Have you no shame?"
 * Rhetorical question**: asking a question whose answer is self-evident

Ex: Instead of "The creation of the bridge was a national project", "The creation of the bridge was a national waste".
 * Diction**: the choice and arrangement of words to get a certain response from the listener/reader.

Ex: “I ask gentlemen, sir, what mean this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of naves and armies” (188)
 * Appeal to reason** – a movement that uses words in such a way as to get readers/listeners to come to their senses and realize their surroundings.

Ex:“An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!” (189)
 * Appeal to emotion** is a logical fallacy where a party relies too much on emotional issues or presents only an emotional case in establishing an argument.

[|Some other examples]: Appeal to consequences, appeal to fear, appeal to flattery, appeal to pity, and appeal to ridicule.

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