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Devices for Comparison. Info adapted from http://rhetoric.byu.edu/. Devices. Analogy: A comparison Metaphor: A comparison in which one thing becomes another “No man is an island” –John Donne
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Devices for Comparison Info adapted from http://rhetoric.byu.edu/
Devices • Analogy: A comparison • Metaphor: A comparison in which one thing becomes another • “No man is an island” –John Donne • “For ever since that time you went away / I’ve been a rabbit burrowed in the wood.” –Maurice Sceve • Simile: An explicit comparison (often, but not always, using like or as) • “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate” – Shakespeare • Personification: Giving human attributes to nonhuman things • Jealousy = Green-eyed monster • “The insatiable hunger for imagination preys upon human life” – Samuel Johnson
Devices • Metonymy: A reference to something or someone by naming something closely connected to it • The pen is mightier than the sword • Pen = writing; Sword = violence • “If you like it then you should have put a ring on it” –Beyonce • Ring = engagement • Synecdoche: Representing the whole of an object or thing by naming one of its parts • Come look at my new wheels! • Wheels = car • “He shall think differently,” the muskateer threatened, “when he feels the point of my steel.” • Steel = sword