This no-frills worktext teaches students to accurately recognize, evaluate, and utilize 33 common rhetorical devices. Explanations and examples of each device are followed by two to four exercises that help familiarize students with their correct usages, and three cumulative reviews challenge students to recall what they’ve learned. Among the rhetorical devices covered: hyperbole, litotes, eponym, parallelism/chiasmus, apostrophe, zeugma, amplification, and parataxis. Grades 9–12. Prestwick House. 224 pages. 2016 revised edition.
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