Use of Alliteration, Assonance, and Cacophony :: Use of Alliteration, Assonance, and Cacophony

Use of the Rhetorical Strategies of Alliteration, Assonance, and CacophonyCandice Scheffing, a student a New Mexico Tech, not to long ago move an electronic mail to the Clark112-list on the subject of gender. She had analyzed an essay by James Q. Wilson called Gender for his utilize of rhetorical strategies. Many rhetorical strategies can be seen in the email. The rhetorical strategies that can be found are alliteration, vowel rhyme, and cacophony.The major rhetorical scheme that Scheffing used was alliteration. The use of alliteration by Scheffing serves to be quite good in email because it allows her to point out the use of rhetorical strategies by Wilson in his essay. An vitrine of alliteration used by Scheffing is, A number of examples are obvious through the first few paragraphs of the essay (1). The alliteration can be seen in the words first and few. Another sample of alliteration in Scheffings work can be seen in this condemnation, This reference to nature as having human characteristics is a personification (1). The use of alliteration in this sentence can be seen in the beginning sounds of having and human that are in a series. A final example of alliteration in Scheffings email is, This statement seems most disturbing to anyone who would read it because it either doesnt make sense, or is believed to be completely wrong (1). The alliteration can be discover in the series of words statement, seems, who, and would. The use of alliteration by Scheffing serves as probably her most useful use of rhetorical strategies. Another rhetorical strategy used by Candice is assonance.Assonance does not serve as a major source of rhetorical strategies, but it still is present in her email. The use of assonance keeps the readers attention somewhat because the email begins to sound like a rhyme as it is read. The first example of assonance in Scheffings email is, It becomes interesting that nature can play tricks on humankind (1). The use of assonance can be seen in the same sounds of nature, play, can, and humankind. A second example of assonance in the email is, Two contrasting words, essential and useless are in the same sentence referring to the same group of people males (Scheffing, 1). The assonance is evident in these sounds of same and males. The third example of assonance I have seen in Scheffings email is, These three forms of rhetoric, personification, antithesis and logos are distributively very important keys to the effectiveness of Wilsons essay (1).