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Rhetorical Techniques Used In The Essay Of Ellen Terry

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In an essay published in the 1940’s, an author attempted to delve deep into who renowned celebrity Ellen Terry really was. Through rhetorical devices, the writer analyzes the many facets in which Terry far exceeded others. Terry’s character is developed throughout the piece as somewhat of a jack of all trades being able to master so many skills. Through anaphoras, metaphors and rhetorical questions, along with many other more subtle rhetorical devices, Terry is built up as a figure unlike any before her.

The author of the essay begins to embed the idea of Terry’s multifaceted skills into the minds of the readers through her use of anaphoras. In addition to anaphoras, the writer chooses to use parallelism in her essay to further show Terry’s …show more content…

Whereas the writer uses anaphora and parallelism to show show how her cooking and drawing skills were equal, he/she uses personification and metaphors to show the beauty of her writing. For starters the writer explains Terry’s literature through a metaphor. “The words in her beautiful rapid hand bubbled off her pen.” This means that the her dazzling literature would come straight from her body and go directly to the paper. Whatever she thought up she would write up and it would always be spectacular (line 18-19). He/she continues this train of thought by commenting on how Terry’s writing was almost the same as an actual speaker with inflection. “With dashes and notes of exclamation she tried to give them the very tone and stress of the spoken word.” This personification of her writing being able to have the same stress as the spoken word, eloquently informs the reader of how phenomenal and impactful her writing was (line 20-21). Finally, the author shows off how extraordinary Ellen Terry was by summing up who she was. “But now and again Nature creates a new part, an original part.” The writer personifies nature and how it is creating this once in a lifetime role for Terry. He/she compares Terry to this by saying it was her fate to act the new part (line

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