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Use your  \nstudent,\"working together\",or using any other student's work  \no Create and use a Table of Contents on the first page or two of  \no Use a composition book for your journal. Anything else just  \no Your name and period should be clearly legible on the front  \no If you find yourself without your journal on a day you need to  \nwork on it,keep your writing on notebook paper fitted to the  \no Write out and underline all questions. Underline vocabulary  \nwill result in a\"zero\"on the assignment and a referral of the  \ncollaboration on an assignment. Sharing work with another  \nsiz of your journal-not oversized or sticking out. See Mr.  \no You are expected to complete all journal work without the  \nwords. Highlight (or underline with a colored pencil) any  \nssistance of others unless Mr.Benton specifically allows  \no Never staple anything into your journal;tape it in.  \nBenton for blank loose-leaf journal pages.  \ndoesn't hold up throughout the year.  \nstudent to his/her administrator.  \nfolder to store graded papers.  \nour journal.  \nquotations.  \nCOver.  \nRhetorical Devices  \n\n| Device   | Description   | Example   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Antithesis  \u003Cbr>an-'ti-tha-ss   | the rhetorical contrast of ideas  \u003Cbr>by means of parallel  \u003Cbr>arrangements of words,  \u003Cbr>clauses,or sentences   | \"It was the best of times,it was the worst of times,it was  \u003Cbr>the age of wisdom,it was the age of foolishness,it was  \u003Cbr>the epoch of belief,it was the epoch of incredulity,it was  \u003Cbr>the season of Light,it was the season of Darkness,it was  \u003Cbr>the spring of hope,it was the winter of despair,we had  \u003Cbr>everything before us,we had nothing before us,we were  \u003Cbr>all going direct to Heaven,we were all going direct the  \u003Cbr>other way.”  \u003Cbr>A Tale of Two Cities,Charles Dickens   |\n| Asyndeton  \u003Cbr>ə-'sin-də-,tän   | omission of the conjunctions  \u003Cbr>that ordinarily join coordinate  \u003Cbr>words or clauses   | \"I came;I saw;I conquered.\"  \u003Cbr>Julius Caesar,William Shakespeare   |\n| Chiasmus  \u003Cbr>kī-'az-məs   | an inverted relationship  \u003Cbr>between the syntactic  \u003Cbr>elements of parallel phrases   | \"In his face  \u003Cbr>Divine compassion visibly appeerd  \u003Cbr>Love without end,and without measure Grace”  \u003Cbr>Paradise Lost,John Milton   |\n| Irony   | the use of words to express  \u003Cbr>something other than and  \u003Cbr>especially the opposite of the  \u003Cbr>literal meaning   | “Go ask his name:if he be married.My grave is like to  \u003Cbr>be my wedding bed.”  \u003Cbr>Romeo and Juliet,William Shakespeare   |\n| Metonymy  \u003Cbr>mə-'tä-nə-mē   | a figure of speech consisting  \u003Cbr>of the use of the name of one  \u003Cbr>thing for that of another of  \u003Cbr>which it is an attribute or with  \u003Cbr>which it is associated   | \"The pen is mightier than the sword.\"Edward Bulwer  \u003Cbr>Lytton   |\n| Rhetorical  \u003Cbr>question   | a statement made in the form  \u003Cbr>of a question with no  \u003Cbr>expectation of an answer   | \"To be or ","cbCaicD7TlvKACes","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicD7TlvKACes","pdf",2549659,"English","# Rhetorical Appeals\n## Ethos\n## Kairos\n## Logos\n## Pathos\n# Rhetorical Devices\n## Antithesis\n## Asyndeton\n## Chiasmus\n## Irony\n## Metonymy\n## Rhetorical Question\n## Synecdoche\n## Zeugma","[{\"question\":\"What are the four main rhetorical appeals covered in this document?\",\"answer\":\"The document covers Ethos, Kairos, Logos, and Pathos. 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