ABSTRACT
This chapter covers allusion, eponym, apostrophe, and transferred epithet. An allusion is a reference to a historical event or person. An eponym describes someone by referring to him or her by the name of a famous person. An apostrophe is an address to someone, as in, “I hope you understand this, O reader.” A transferred epithet is an adjective modifying a noun it cannot normally modify, as in “hungry eye.” Style Check 10 discusses a writer’s persona, how he or she appears to the reader based on the way the writer uses language. Define Your Terms asks students to define each of the rhetorical devices discussed in the chapter and to provide their own examples of each one. It’s in the Cloud asks students to research structured writing (or information mapping) and conclude how useful it is for clear writing. Salt and Pepper 10 flexes student understanding of diction levels by asking them to rewrite some famous proverbs in both simpler and more complex ways. The chapter ends with a Review Questions quiz and Questions for Thought and Discussion, asking students to think about some of the ideas discussed in the chapter.
