Subjects>Books and Literature>Poetry

What is the function of the rhetorical device bombast?

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 3/22/2024

The function of bombast is to inflate language to make something seem more important or impressive than it actually is. It is often used to create a sense of grandeur or importance in writing or speaking.

AnswerBot

∙ 1y ago

What else can I help you with?

Rhetorical device on Gandhi?

Which rhetorical device does this sentence best exemplify?

It's important to provide the sentence in order to determine the rhetorical device being used.

Can you provide a sentence using non prejudicial rhetorical device?

prejudicial use of rhetorical devices?

Which rhetorical device allows you to insinuate something depracatory about someone or something without actually saying it?

The answer is insinuation but I'm not sure that it's a rhetorical device.

A slanting device clothed as an explanation?

Rhetorical Explanation.

Is repetition a literary device?

Answer this question… Rhetorical question

What is the rhetorical device that tries to sidetrack someone?

redherring/smokescreen

A rhetorical device which includes the use of ridicule?

Horse Laugh

What is the literary term for as chill as death?

Simile, which is a Rhetorical Device

What is a technique used to persuade an audience called?

Rhetorical device

What rhetorical device is best described as an extravagant overstatement.?

hyperbole

The name of the rhetorical device that attacks the arguer instead of the argument?

Ad hominem is a rhetorical device that disregards an argument based on the arguer. The claim is usually completely irrelevant to the topic of discussion.

Trending Questions

What is an acrostic poem for Andrew Jackson? What rhymes with hendo? What rhymes with brilliance? What is the climax of The Day of Destiny by Sir Thomas Malory? What are the literary devices used in the poem remember by Joy Harjo? Besides the intrinsic limitation of the analytic approach needed to proceed how could be poetic ways of thinking distinguished from prosaic ways of thinking? What are some personification sentences for fall? If you are growing up in ancient Greece how would you learn about an epic poem? What does the poem the passer by George Abbe mean? Is ground and down rhyming? What examples of human affection appear in Beowulf? Fill the blanks If ifs and buts were candys and nuts? Who is Angel of death in the book called night? Is the sonnet as a definite form of poetry originated in Italy? What can of rhyme scheme does the poet use in the poem to his excellency general Washington? What themes did Robinson explore in poetry? Is Iambic Pentameter common in Spanish? How can you make a sentence using hymn? Comment appelle un vers de 8 cyllabes? Trace the development of Philippine literature from pre-colonial times to contemporary times?