rhetoricalDevice
P834
predicate
Indicates that one entity is used as a rhetorical device in relation to another, such as a figure of speech, stylistic technique, or persuasive strategy within a discourse.
Aliases (14)
- literaryDevice ×129
- literaryTechnique ×73
- narrativeTechnique ×60
- usesMetaphor ×14
- dramaticDevice ×9
- containsMetaphor ×6
- metaphorFor ×6
- hasRhetoricalDevice ×4
- usesDramaticDevice ×3
- usesFigurativeLanguage ×3
- hasRhetoricalStrategy ×2
- rhetoricalFunction ×2
- employsRhetoricalDevice ×1
- stylisticUsage ×1
Sample triples (330)
| Subject | Object |
|---|---|
| "Day of Infamy" speech | appeal to patriotism → |
| "Day of Infamy" speech | framing of attack as unprovoked and treacherous → |
| "Day of Infamy" speech | moral condemnation of enemy actions → |
| "I Have a Dream" speech | biblical allusion → |
| "I Have a Dream" speech | metaphor → |
| "I Have a Dream" speech | repetition → |
| "bodies upon the gears" speech | mechanical metaphor for institutional power → |
| 4 Maccabees | philosophical argumentation using historical exempla ("literaryDevice") → |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | foreshadowing ("literaryDevice") → |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | grotesque characterization ("literaryDevice") → |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | symbolism ("literaryDevice") → |
| A Journal of the Plague Year | documentary style ("literaryTechnique") → |
| A Journal of the Plague Year | pseudo-journalistic narrative ("literaryTechnique") → |
| A Journal of the Plague Year | use of supposed official records ("literaryTechnique") → |
| A Liar’s Autobiography | absurdist humor ("literaryDevice") → |
| A Liar’s Autobiography | metafiction ("literaryDevice") → |
| All for one and one for all | chiasmus ("hasRhetoricalDevice") → |
| All for one and one for all | parallelism ("hasRhetoricalDevice") → |
| As I Lay Dying | multiple narrators ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| As I Lay Dying | stream of consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| At the ’Cadian Ball | local color ("literaryTechnique") → |
| At the ’Cadian Ball | use of dialect ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Because I could not stop for Death | alliteration ("literaryDevice") → |
| Because I could not stop for Death | enjambment ("literaryDevice") → |
| Because I could not stop for Death | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| Because I could not stop for Death | personification ("literaryDevice") → |
| Because I could not stop for Death | slant rhyme ("literaryDevice") → |
| Because I could not stop for Death | symbolism ("literaryDevice") → |
| Beloved | stream of consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Biedermann und die Brandstifter | Brechtian elements ("dramaticDevice") → |
| Biedermann und die Brandstifter | chorus ("dramaticDevice") → |
| Book II (A History of New York) | exaggeration ("literaryDevice") → |
| Book II (A History of New York) | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| Book II (A History of New York) | parody of historical scholarship ("literaryDevice") → |
| Book of Jeremiah | marriage metaphor for covenant ("containsMetaphor") → |
| Book of Jeremiah | potter and clay ("containsMetaphor") → |
| Book of Jeremiah | shepherds of Israel ("containsMetaphor") → |
| Book of Jonah | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| Book of Jonah | satire ("literaryDevice") → |
| Caddy Compson | primarily seen through others’ perspectives ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Cane | fragmented, impressionistic episodes ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Canticle of the Sun | personification of elements ("literaryDevice") → |
| Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas | musicality in verse ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas | rhythmic experimentation ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Cantos para soldados y sones para turistas | use of popular speech ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Cause Célèbre | use of jury forewoman as focal character ("dramaticDevice") → |
| Cavalier poetry | conceit (less elaborate than metaphysical conceit) ("employsRhetoricalDevice") → |
| Cleanness | alliteration ("literaryDevice") → |
| Cleanness | extended biblical exempla ("literaryDevice") → |
| Cleanness | vivid descriptive imagery ("literaryDevice") → |
| Clouds | allegory ("literaryDevice") → |
| Clouds | caricature ("literaryDevice") → |
| Clouds | choral commentary ("literaryDevice") → |
| Clouds | parody ("literaryDevice") → |
| Coffee | coffee as metaphor for intimacy ("usesMetaphor") → |
| Confessions | detailed psychological self-analysis ("literaryDevice") → |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | anaphora ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | cataloguing ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | direct address ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | imagery ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | repetition ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Disabled | contrast ("literaryDevice") → |
| Disabled | imagery ("literaryDevice") → |
| Disabled | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| Disabled | symbolism ("literaryDevice") → |
| Eyeless in Gaza | multiple perspectives ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Eyeless in Gaza | shifting chronology ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Fireside chats on banking crisis | direct address to listeners as individuals ("hasRhetoricalStrategy") → |
| Fireside chats on banking crisis | simple explanations of complex financial issues ("hasRhetoricalStrategy") → |
| First Epistle of Peter | Christ as cornerstone ("containsMetaphor") → |
| First Epistle of Peter | believers as living stones ("containsMetaphor") → |
| First Epistle of Peter | devil as roaring lion ("containsMetaphor") → |
| Futility | contrast between life and death ("literaryDevice") → |
| Futility | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| Futility | personification of the sun ("literaryDevice") → |
| Futility | rhetorical questions ("literaryDevice") → |
| Game Plan for Life | football game plan ("usesMetaphor") → |
| Gettysburg Address | allusion → |
| Gettysburg Address | antithesis → |
| Gettysburg Address | parallelism → |
| Gettysburg Address | repetition → |
| Gift from the Sea | seashells ("usesMetaphor") → |
| Gift from the Sea | seashore ("usesMetaphor") → |
| Good Shepherd | Jesus’ pastoral care for believers ("metaphorFor") → |
| Good Shepherd | divine protection of Christians ("metaphorFor") → |
| Good Shepherd | spiritual guidance of the Church ("metaphorFor") → |
| Gravity’s Rainbow | intertextuality ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Gravity’s Rainbow | metafiction ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Gravity’s Rainbow | pastiche ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Gravity’s Rainbow | stream of consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Home | shifting perspectives ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Homer's Odyssey | in medias res ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Hope is the thing with feathers | extended metaphor ("literaryDevice") → |
| Hope is the thing with feathers | personification ("literaryDevice") → |
| I Am sayings of Jesus | bread ("usesMetaphor") → |
| I Am sayings of Jesus | door ("usesMetaphor") → |
| I Am sayings of Jesus | life ("usesMetaphor") → |
| I Am sayings of Jesus | light ("usesMetaphor") → |
| I Am sayings of Jesus | shepherd ("usesMetaphor") → |
| I Am sayings of Jesus | truth ("usesMetaphor") → |
| I Am sayings of Jesus | vine ("usesMetaphor") → |
| I Am sayings of Jesus | way ("usesMetaphor") → |
| I Sing the Body Electric | anaphora ("literaryTechnique") → |
| I Sing the Body Electric | cataloguing ("literaryTechnique") → |
| I Sing the Body Electric | imagery ("literaryTechnique") → |
| I Sing the Body Electric | parallelism ("literaryTechnique") → |
| I Sing the Body Electric | repetition ("literaryTechnique") → |
| I cannot live with You | enjambment ("literaryDevice") → |
| I cannot live with You | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| I cannot live with You | metaphor ("literaryDevice") → |
| I cannot live with You | paradox ("literaryDevice") → |
| I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | alliteration ("literaryDevice") → |
| I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | enjambment ("literaryDevice") → |
| I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | paradox ("literaryDevice") → |
| I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | personification ("literaryDevice") → |
| I heard a Fly buzz—when I died | imagery ("usesFigurativeLanguage") → |
| I heard a Fly buzz—when I died | metaphor ("usesFigurativeLanguage") → |
| I heard a Fly buzz—when I died | symbolism ("usesFigurativeLanguage") → |
| I, Too | anaphora ("literaryDevice") → |
| I, Too | contrast ("literaryDevice") → |
| I, Too | imagery ("literaryDevice") → |
| I, Too | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| I, Too | symbolism ("literaryDevice") → |
| If Not Higher | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| If Not Higher | satire ("literaryDevice") → |
| If Not Higher | symbolism ("literaryDevice") → |
| In Cold Blood | novelistic reconstruction of real events ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Infinite Jest | shifts in point of view ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Infinite Jest | stream of consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| J.B. | play-within-a-play elements ("dramaticDevice") → |
| Jacques le fataliste et son maître | breaking the fourth wall ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Jacques le fataliste et son maître | digression ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Jacques le fataliste et son maître | frame narrative ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Jacques le fataliste et son maître | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| Jacques le fataliste et son maître | nonlinear narrative ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Jacques le fataliste et son maître | parody ("literaryDevice") → |
| Jacques le fataliste et son maître | self-reflexivity ("literaryDevice") → |
| John F. Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech | contrast between free world and communist world → |
| John F. Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech | repetition of key phrases → |
| Kaddish | long lines influenced by jazz and chant ("literaryDevice") → |
| Kaddish | repetition ("literaryDevice") → |
| Kaddish | stream of consciousness ("literaryDevice") → |
| La Conquête de Plassans | naturalist observation ("literaryTechnique") → |
| La Curée | detailed social observation ("literaryTechnique") → |
| La Curée | naturalist description ("literaryTechnique") → |
| La Princesse de Babylone | irony ("literaryTechnique") → |
| La Princesse de Babylone | satire of monarchy ("literaryTechnique") → |
| La Princesse de Babylone | satire of organized religion ("literaryTechnique") → |
| La Religieuse | psychological analysis of the heroine ("literaryTechnique") → |
| La Religieuse | realist description of convent life ("literaryTechnique") → |
| La voix humaine | offstage male voice implied by telephone ("dramaticDevice") → |
| Le Neveu de Rameau | Socratic-style questioning ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Le Neveu de Rameau | monologue within dialogue ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Le Ventre de Paris | detailed descriptive realism ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Le Ventre de Paris | documentary-style observation ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Leaf Storm | stream of consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Like Water for Chocolate | first-person frame narrative ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Like Water for Chocolate | magical realism ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| L’Empire, c’est la paix | creation of a reassuring image of empire ("rhetoricalFunction") → |
| L’Empire, c’est la paix | simplification of complex foreign policy claims ("rhetoricalFunction") → |
| Mein Name sei Gantenbein | multiple possible lives imagined by the protagonist ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Metamorphoses by Apuleius | allegory of spiritual rebirth ("literaryDevice") → |
| Metamorphoses by Apuleius | story-within-a-story ("literaryDevice") → |
| Miramar | multiple narrators ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Montage of a Dream Deferred | fragmented scenes ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Montage of a Dream Deferred | multiple voices ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Mr. President | sometimes used rhetorically in political discourse ("stylisticUsage") → |
| O Captain! My Captain! | anaphora ("literaryDevice") → |
| O Captain! My Captain! | apostrophe ("literaryDevice") → |
| O Captain! My Captain! | extended metaphor ("literaryDevice") → |
| O Captain! My Captain! | imagery ("literaryDevice") → |
| Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College | allusion ("literaryDevice") → |
| Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College | apostrophe ("literaryDevice") → |
| Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College | contrast ("literaryDevice") → |
| Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College | imagery ("literaryDevice") → |
| Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College | personification ("literaryDevice") → |
| Os Lusíadas | catalogues of heroes ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Os Lusíadas | epic similes ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Os Lusíadas | in medias res opening ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Point Counter Point | multiple viewpoints ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Point Counter Point | stream of consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Pot-Bouille | detailed social observation ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Pot-Bouille | naturalist description ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Quentin Compson | stream of consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Rayuela | multiple reading orders ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Rural Funerals | detailed description ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Rural Funerals | local color ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Rural Funerals | moral reflection ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Rural Funerals | sentimentalism ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Sartoris | multiple perspectives ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Sartoris | nonlinear narrative ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Shakespearean tragedies | foreshadowing ("dramaticDevice") → |
| Shakespearean tragedies | ghosts and visions ("dramaticDevice") → |
| Shakespearean tragedies | tragic irony ("dramaticDevice") → |
| She Walks in Beauty | alliteration ("literaryDevice") → |
| She Walks in Beauty | antithesis ("literaryDevice") → |
| She Walks in Beauty | enjambment ("literaryDevice") → |
| She Walks in Beauty | metaphor ("literaryDevice") → |
| She Walks in Beauty | simile ("literaryDevice") → |
| Star of the Sea | Mary as a star guiding Christians ("metaphorFor") → |
| Sugar learning platform | journal metaphor ("usesMetaphor") → |
| Supplément au voyage de Bougainville | use of Tahitian voices to criticize Europe ("literaryDevice") → |
| Supplément au voyage de Bougainville | use of fictional dialogue to frame philosophical debate ("literaryDevice") → |
| Take back control | framing of loss and restoration of control ("hasRhetoricalDevice") → |
| Take back control | imperative phrase ("hasRhetoricalDevice") → |
| Tancred, or The New Crusade | political allegory ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Tancred, or The New Crusade | satire ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Tancred, or The New Crusade | social realism ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Amniotic Universe | metaphor ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Amniotic Universe | the universe as a womb-like environment ("metaphorFor") → |
| The Autumn of the Patriarch | hyperbole ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Autumn of the Patriarch | magical realism ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Autumn of the Patriarch | repetition ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Barefoot Boy | imagery ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Barefoot Boy | metaphor ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Barefoot Boy | personification ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Barefoot Boy | simile ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Bird in a Cage | disguise ("usesDramaticDevice") → |
| The Bird in a Cage | romantic misunderstanding ("usesDramaticDevice") → |
| The Bird in a Cage | witty repartee ("usesDramaticDevice") → |
| The Black Cat | foreshadowing ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Black Cat | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Black Cat | symbolism ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Blind Assassin | embedded narrative ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Blind Assassin | multiple timelines ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Blind Assassin | nonlinear narrative ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Blind Assassin | unreliable narrator ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Browning Version | farewell presentation scene ("dramaticDevice") → |
| The Cask of Amontillado | dramatic irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Cask of Amontillado | foreshadowing ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Cask of Amontillado | symbolism ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Cask of Amontillado | unreliable narrator ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Country Church | local color ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Country Church | picturesque description ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Country Church | sentimental reflection ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Death of Artemio Cruz | fragmented narrative ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Death of Artemio Cruz | shifting perspectives ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Devil and Tom Walker | allegory ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Devil and Tom Walker | satire ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Dream of the Rood | alliteration ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Dream of the Rood | personification of the Cross ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Dream of the Rood | vivid imagery ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy | alliteration ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy | hyperbole ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy | satire ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Giaour | multiple narrators ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Giaour | shifting perspectives ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Golden Bowl | free indirect discourse ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Golden Bowl | interior consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Honorable Gentleman | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Honorable Gentleman | plot twist ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Honorable Gentleman | unreliable expectations ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Houdini of the Hardwood | illusionist-level passing and dribbling ("metaphorFor") → |
| The Hunchback’s Tale | multiple narrators ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Hunchback’s Tale | story within a story ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Kreutzer Sonata | frame narrative ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Kreutzer Sonata | unreliable narrator ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Loves of the Plants | personification ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Mare (Dos kleyne mentshele) | allegorical characterization ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Mare (Dos kleyne mentshele) | allegory ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Mare (Dos kleyne mentshele) | satire ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Minister’s Black Veil | allegory ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Minister’s Black Veil | ambiguity ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Minister’s Black Veil | symbolism ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | sensory imagery ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | stream of consciousness elements ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | unreliable narration ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad | story within a story ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Portrait of a Lady | free indirect discourse ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Raven | alliteration ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Raven | assonance ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Raven | internal rhyme ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Raven | personification ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Raven | repetition ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Raven | symbolism ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Seafarer | allegory of spiritual voyage ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Seafarer | contrast between sea and land ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Seafarer | imagery of cold and hardship ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Sleepers | anaphora ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Sleepers | cataloguing ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Sleepers | imagery ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Sleepers | repetition ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Sleepers | symbolism ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Sound and the Fury | multiple narrators ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Sound and the Fury | stream of consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Storm | free indirect discourse ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | foreshadowing ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | imagery ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | irony ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | repetition ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | symbolism ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | unreliable narrator ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Thief and the Dogs | stream of consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Time of the Hero | multiple perspectives ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Time of the Hero | nonlinear narrative ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Trial of God | allegory ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Trial of God | dark humor ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Trial of God | dialogue-driven narrative ("literaryTechnique") → |
| The Wanderer | alliteration ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Wanderer | kennings ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Wanderer | variation ("literaryDevice") → |
| The Wings of the Dove | free indirect discourse ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Wings of the Dove | interior monologue ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Woman Warrior | blend of autobiography and myth ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| The Woman Warrior | use of Chinese legends ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Troilus and Criseyde | narrator’s prologue and epilogue ("literaryDevice") → |
| Trou-ringh | allegory ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Ulysses | free indirect discourse ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Ulysses | interior monologue ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Ulysses | parody and pastiche ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Ulysses | stream of consciousness ("narrativeTechnique") → |
| Vox Clamantis | allegory ("literaryDevice") → |
| Vox Clamantis | dream vision ("literaryDevice") → |
| Wild nights—Wild nights! | exclamation → |
| Wild nights—Wild nights! | metaphor → |
| Wild nights—Wild nights! | paradox → |
| Wild nights—Wild nights! | repetition → |
| Works and Days | gnomic sayings ("literaryDevice") → |
| Works and Days | proverbial expressions ("literaryDevice") → |
| Xenophon’s Symposium | banquet conversation ("literaryDevice") → |
| Xenophon’s Symposium | character sketches ("literaryDevice") → |
| Xenophon’s Symposium | humor ("literaryDevice") → |
| Xerox Alto user interface | desktop metaphor ("usesMetaphor") → |
| Young Goodman Brown | allegory ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Young Goodman Brown | ambiguity ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Young Goodman Brown | symbolism ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Zadig | allegory ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Zadig | irony ("literaryTechnique") → |
| Zadig | parable-like episodes ("literaryTechnique") → |