Today in Mr.Rease class went over rhetorical devices. We went over 5 and already knew 2 of them. I knew what a hyperbole was and I knew what an understatement was. I learned three new rhetorical devices. The first new device I learned was litotes. Litotes Emphasizes its point by using a word opposite to the condition. Then I learned antithesis, antithesis makes use of a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas. And the last one is hypophora, which is where the author asks a question then proceeds to answer it.
Today in Mr.Rease’s 4th period American Literature class we learned about informal and formal texts. In class he gave us a passage with no context, we just read it. After we read it we all realized that there wasn’t really any theme or moral of the story. He then gave us a topic, which half of the class had already figured out midway through the passage. That was interesting to me because I didn’t get it until the prompt, which says a lot about myself. It was pretty fun breaking down the passage with the 2 different prompts. I’m glad I had a little nice time in 4th period today.
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