April 16th

 Today Mr.Rease Elaborated more on some of the more unknown rhetorical devices that we may have never seen or heard of . The five new rhetorical devices we learned today we're Understatement which is less than one would normally expect , Litotes which isironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary , Antithesis which is  a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition , Hypophora which is figure of speech in which a writer raises a question, and then immediately provides an answer to that question , and a Rhetorical Question is a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

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