5. Let’s talk about a few… Imagery, Contrast, Repetition, Metaphor, Parallelism, and Allusion
6. Devices used in the 2009 Inaugural Address: Imagery: using metaphor, simile and personification. Contrast: differences between two or more subjects.
7. Devices used in the 2009 Inaugural Address: Repetition: repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, in order to emphasize. Metaphor: directly says something is something else.
8. Devices used in the 2009 Inaugural Address: Parallelism: giving two or more parts of the sentences a similar form so as to give the whole a definite pattern. Allusion: figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.
9. Show me what you Understand! (Get into groups) Devices Inaugural Examples Imagery Contrast Repetition Metaphor Parallelism Allusion
10. Listening and Speaking/ Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications, 1.10: Analyze historically significant speeches (e.g., Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”) to find the rhetorical devices and features that make them memorable. Retrieved from: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/elacontentstnds.pdf Rhetorical Devices found in the 2009 Inaugural Speech, Retrieved from: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/mar2008/sb2008033_156351.htm . Resources:
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