1. 23 OCTOBER 2014 What were some rhetorical devices/stylistic devices that you found in your research last night? Be prepared to share with the class! What questions do you have about your homework? Did you understand the analysis worksheet? How did your annotations of “Don’t Blame the Eater” go? Did you make frequent marginal notations? Did you understand the writer’s claim/writer’s message? What message was Zinczenko trying to send in writing “Don’t Blame the Eater”?

2. RHETORICAL STRATEGIES/STYLISTIC DEVICES Add these to your notes: Rhetorical Question-- is asked when the questioner himself knows the answer already or an answer is not actually demanded. So, an answer is not expected from the audience. Such a question is used to emphasize a point or draw the audience’s attention. Ex: “It’s hot out today, isn’t it?” Syntax--determines how the chosen words are used to form a sentence. Quickness, decisiveness and speed are added to a text by using short phrase, clauses and sentences. Whereas, in a text where the subject matter is serious that requires contemplation, long, convoluted sentence are used to slow down the pace of a prose text.

3. Juxtaposition-- two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. Ex:It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair Anaphora--deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect is known as Anaphora. Ex: “My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.

4. Apostrophe--addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings. Ex: ‘Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory…” Anadiplosis-- repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause. Ex: When the going gets tough, the tough gets going