Today in class we learned about gender roles. Sex is the biological characteristics with which a person is born. There is a difference between sex and gender. Whereas gender is the learned attitudes and behaviors that characterize people of one sex or the other. We also learned the difference between nature and nurture. Nature is more fixed and nurture is changeable.
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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