Today in class I read a poem. The poem was called Birch Tree. It was a long poem so we broke it down along the way. It started off by the man encountering a birch tree and hoping kids played on it Like he once did. We depicted rhetorical devices, like a simile. We then determined the theme of the poem. The theme was don’t take life for granted.
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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