AS English Language Rhetorical Features
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- Created on: 21-03-14 19:48
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- Rhetorical Features
- Pragmatics
- The 'real' meaning of a text or message
- discourse analysis
- interpretation
- inference
- slang
- irony
- sarcasm
- short-cut mode
- irony
- sarcasm
- short-cut mode
- slang
- slang
- Ambiguity
- short-cut mode
- sarcasm
- irony
- Ambiguity
- short-cut mode
- sarcasm
- irony
- slang
- inference
- power differences
- pragmatic inference
- Semantic Fields
- Rhetoric = art of public speaking, intended for persuasion of to make the speech memorable
- Balanced Structures
- A structure where 2 halves balance each other out
- Contrast / Antithesis
- Where reality is contrasted with what the speaker is offering
- Figurative Language
- Language that is not used literally
- Hyperbole
- An element of exaggerated speech
- Repetition
- Helps the audience retain key points
- Rhetorical cohesion
- May be achieved through repetitions and phonological patterns
- Syntactic Parallelism
- The repetition of sentence structure
- Synthetic Personalisation
- Where a speaker uses the 2nd person pronoun to sythesise or fake a personal relation to the audience
- Triads
- A pattern of 3 words
- Pragmatics
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