Week 7-Post #2: Rhetoric Devices

 Make sure to define the rhetorical device, and give a personal example of each. With the campaigns down our throat and the debates flooding our everyday lives, it can only mean its a certain year; an election year. In this time we are constantly seeing, hearing, and speaking using rhetoric devices. A rhetorical device is the use of a term that has a negative association by a neutral or positive term. I use this rhetoric very often. The first type that I used this week is euphemism. I work in a Children's Department and I am around children all of the time. I usually have to take children to the bathroom and instead of saying, "do you have to go to the restroom?" I usually refer to the restroom as the "potty." While restroom is not a negative term, to children, using a term like "potty" is a more positive reference to using the toilet and a term that parents use along side of a positive reinforcement. The other term that I use very often is sarcasm. I get this attribute from my father. We like to joke with each other and sarcasm is usually at the root of it. My dad told me today that I needed to give him $7 after he bought me lunch. My reply was, "I can pay you back in love." In which he responded, "Yeah that will take you seven years." I said back to him, "I'm in no rush." Sarcastic comments and euphemisms are something that I don't just use on a weekly basis, but on a daily basis.