Rhetorical Devices

Rhetorical devices are a form of language that uses persuasion in the psychological form to convince or change someone’s mind or opinion. In the past week I have used a couple rhetorical devises without really thinking about them. I mostly use to main types of rhetorical devices to convince my boyfriend of things I want to do. These are Sarcasm and euphemism. Last week, I was being sarcastic about how hungry I was and we went out to eat my favorite food because of it. I always try to sweeten things up with him as well, which is really what an euphemism device is all about. Euphemism devices use positive or neutral terms in place of negative ones to sugar coat the truth. Just yesterday night I wanted to buy tickets to a concert so I told him that as long as he came along everything would be fine and nothing bad would happen to me. As I was speaking to him, I also replaced the negative things that come with any concert with words that demonstrate that things are not always so corrupt and malicious as they seem to be. These are just ways that I have used rhetorical devices in the past.