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Rhetorical device

LIterary devices and meanings

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1. Simile: A simile' is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like" or "as". 2. Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in ?A mighty fortress is our God.? 3. Repetition: The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated. 4. Alliteration: Repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases as in "Come?dragging the Lazy languid Line along". 5. Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences as in "Do you like blue?".

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The Era of the ?Common Man? The Jacksonian Period lived up to its characteristics of being the era of the ?common man.? Andrew Jackson allowed the common man an equal chance achieving success through his economic development, political development, and reform movements. During the era of the ?common man? the common man was the the middle class white male. President Andrew Jackson was the first American to come from humble beginnings and to become the President, this personified the idea of the self-made man. Andrew Jackson also personified the common man because he had been born to a family not of means. Both of Jackson?s parents died when he was young and he fended for himself then worked his way into the military then later became the first president not born from wealth.?
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