More Rhetoric Devices

Today we learned about three more rhetorical devices, Litotes, Antithesis, and Hypophora. Litotes is when you use a word opposite to the condition to emphasize a point. For example, "It's not the best weather today"during a hurricane would be an example of litotes, implying that the weather is horrible. To me, I remember it as sugar coating meaning to talk about or describe (something) in a way that makes it seem more pleasant or acceptable than it is. Instead of being direct and saying the weather is horrible, one would say its not the best which is why I say sugar coating. Antithesis makes use of contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas. To me, this one is the most difficult to think of but the simplest to identify. And last but not least, is hypophora. Hypophera is when one asks a question, then proceeds to answer it. For instance, when a public speaker is speaking they may ask “What could you do to better the community? You could start a neighborhood watch.” The speaker wasn’t speaking directly to one person and asking them to answer, instead, he told the person making it seem as if they were thinking it themselves. I find this device to be the easiest because one can instantly point out when the author may be using it in their essay. Again, I learned something new. I’ve seen them all before just not the names of them. In conclusion class went by pretty quickly but I enjoyed it nonetheless.