Literary Devices

171 Week #5 Process Assignment#2à5%

Paraphrasing + Rhetorical/Literary Devices

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Please re-read the article by Desmond Cole, The Skin I’m In, and complete the assignment below. https://torontolife.com/city/life/skin-im-ive-interrogated-police-50-times-im-black/

Part #1à Paraphrase 4 the following sentences in your own words. You have to change the words as well as the sentence structure, introduce the statement with a signal phrase, and cite the author. (See the Paraphrasing Strategies video in Week #4 + #5 Content and the In-Text Citations google doc. in Week #4 + #5 to review.) Again, I will only mark the first FOUR sentences you attempt.

1. Original quote: “I was his shadow during his visit, totally in awe of his confidence—he was always saying something clever to knock me off balance.” (paragraph 1)

Paraphrase:

2. Original quote: “The fact that my mere presence could cause an armed stranger to feel threatened on Sara’s behalf shocked me at first, but shock quickly gave way to bitterness and anger.” (paragraph 6)

Paraphrase:

3. Original quote: “When I told my white friends about these encounters with police, they’d often respond with skepticism and dismissal, or with a barrage of questions that made me doubt my own sanity.” (paragraph 7)

Paraphrase:

4. Original quote: “Most of the shooting victims and suspects were young Black men, many of them alleged gang members, and the surge of violence stoked a culture of racial anxiety.” (paragraph 19)

Paraphrase

5. Original quote: “But I talk about race to survive. If I diminish the role my skin colour plays in my life, and in the lives of all racialized people, I can’t change anything.” (paragraph 30)

Paraphrase:

6. Original quote: “I’ve become known to police. That shorthand has always troubled me—too many black men are “known” through a foggy lens of suspicion we’ve done nothing to earn. Maybe if they really got to know us, they’d treat us differently.” (paragraph 32)

Paraphrase:

7. Original quote: “My eyes follow every police car that passes me. It has become a matter of survival in a city where, despite all the talk of harmonious multi-culturalism, I continue to stand out.” (paragraph 23)

Paraphrase:

Faithful to the meaning

Original + accurate vocabulary

Original + clear sentence structure

Introduces the author

Cites properly

Good grammar

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Part #2à Please identify some of the rhetorical techniques/devices that Cole has used and provide an example from the article for each. Then write a sentence or 2 to explain why the author used that rhetorical element. What was his purpose in using it? And what effect does that rhetorical/literary device have on Cole’s readers? (See the video Rhetorical/Literary Devices in the content for week #2 + #5 to review).

Rhetorical Devices:

Adage	Ad hominem argument	Allegory	Alliteration	Allusion
Analogy	Anaphora	Anecdote	Aphorism	Cliché
Deductive reasoning	Dialect	Diction	Didactic	Epithet
Euphemism	Figurative Language	Genre	Hyperbole	Idiom
Image	Imagery	Inductive reasoning	Irony	Parable
Parallelism	Parody	Personification	Point of View	Pun
Rhetoric	Rhetorical Question	Sarcasm	Satire	Simile
Style	Symbol	Theme	Thesis	Tone
Understatement

1. Rhetorical Technique: Analogy

Example from the article (quoted + cited): “He was tall, handsome and obnoxious, the kind of guy who could palm a basketball like Michael Jordan” (Cole, 2015, para 1).

How/why was it used? It was used to compare the personality of his cousin Sana and Michael Jordon, who has same physical characteristics.

2. Rhetorical Technique:

Example from the article (quoted + cited):

How/why was it used?

3. Rhetorical Technique:

Example from the article (quoted + cited):

How/why was it used?

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