Editing Rhetorical device (section)

==Irony and imagery==
=== Irony ===
[[Irony]] is the figure of speech where the words of a speaker intends to express a meaning that is directly opposite of the said words.<ref name="Reedsy" /><ref name="Harris Handbook" />
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Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest -<br>For Brutus is an honourable man;<br>So are they all, all honourable men -<br>Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.<br>He was my friend, faithful and just to me:<br>But Brutus says he was ambitious;<br>And Brutus is an honourable man. |Shakespeare [[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]] 3.2}}
=== Metaphor ===
[[Metaphor]] connects two different things to one another. It is frequently invoked by the verb "to be".<ref name="Reedsy" /><ref name="Harris Handbook" /> The use of metaphor in rhetoric is primarily to convey to the audience a new idea or meaning by linking it to an already familiar idea or meaning. The literary critic and rhetorician, [[I. A. Richards]], divides a metaphor into two parts: the vehicle and the tenor.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Richards |first=I. A. (Ivor Armstrong) |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/8632866 |title=The philosophy of rhetoric |date=1981 |publisher=Oxford University Press |oclc=8632866|pages=119–27}}</ref>

In the following example, Romeo compares Juliet to the sun (the vehicle), and this metaphor connecting Juliet to the sun shows that Romeo sees Juliet as being radiant and regards her as an essential being (the tenor).

{{blockquote|But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?<br>It is the East, and Juliet is the sun. |Shakespeare |[[Romeo and Juliet]] 2.2}}

In the example below, John Green compares a toddler to the sun because they do not want to go to bed.

{{blockquote|The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.|John Green, The Fault in Our Stars}}

=== Personification ===
[[Personification]] is the representation of animals, inanimate objects and ideas as having human attributes.<ref name="Reedsy" /><ref name="Harris Handbook" />
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The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night |Shakespeare |[[Romeo and Juliet]] 2.3}}

=== Simile ===
[[Simile]] compares two different things that resemble each other in at least one way using "like" or "as" to explain the comparison.<ref name="Reedsy" /><ref name="Harris Handbook" />
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I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. |Shakespeare |[[Romeo and Juliet]] 2.5}}

=== Metonymy ===
[[Metonymy]] is a figure of speech where a thing or concept is referred to indirectly by the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant. For example, "crown" to denote king or queen.

==== Synecdoche ====
A [[synecdoche]] is a class of [[metonymy]], often by means of either mentioning [[Pars pro toto|a part for the whole]] or conversely [[Totum pro parte|the whole for one of its parts]]. Examples from common English expressions include "suits" (for "businessmen"), "boots" (for "soldiers", a [[pars pro toto]]), and "America" (for "the United States of America", "[[totum pro parte]]").