In today’s class we started off with the bell ringer. Today’s bell ringer always about the most important moment in history to African Americans. I wrote about Barack Obama’s presidency. Next we took a few notes on how to read poetry, and annotations.Lastly we used the annotating steps to under stand the given poem. Today’s poem was about how much blacks have been through.
Today in class we learned about rhetorical devices. The first one we discussed was hyperbole, which is an exaggeration. The second was understatement. An understatement is the force of a descriptive statement that is less than what one would normally expect. Third we went over litotes, which are an emphasis on a point by using a word opposite to the condition. Fourth we learned antithesis, this makes use of a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideals. Lastly we were introduced to hypophora which is asking a question then proceeding to answer it.
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