"Good Readers and Good Writers" #3

A rhetorical device is a technique of writing that an author uses to effect or persuade the reader. "That mist is a mountain—and that mountain must be conquered. Up a trackless slope climbs the master artist, and at the top, on a windy ridge, whom do you think he meets? The panting and happy reader, and there they spontaneously embrace and are linked forever if the book lasts forever." states Nabokov. This is a hyperbole. Just one example of many of the rhetorical devices used in "Good Readers and Good Writers". A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration, and in this quote it says that at the top of a mountain a man meets a happy reader. Which is very unlikely. Also, he states that the book lasts forever, and no book can last forever. Another rhetorical device used is a simile. Similes are very common; a comparison between two things using the words like or as. "There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered: he may be considered as a storyteller, as a teacher, and as an enchanter." This quote is comparing a writer to many things. It is also using the keyword, as. Those are just two examples of rhetorical devices used in this essay, and there are many more.