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Rhetorical Techniques In Summer Night, Riverside By Sara Teasdale

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The poem “Summer Night, Riverside” by Sara Teasdale transports readers into a young, summer night. Teasdale paints a serene scene that is easily visualized because what is seen is not the only thing thoroughly described. As a reader we are given an image with sight, smell, and feelings. You can smell the “fragrant darkness” (15) and picture the moon shining down on a “curving pathway” (6) bordered by blooming trees. The author presents the reader with a magical evening and provokes sentiment for the readers own summer nights. Teasdale is able to elicit a strong image of this memory to the reader. She uses rhetorical devices to describe the light shining on their clothes, the scenery of a hill littered with fallen blossoms from surrounding trees,
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