In the TEE paragraph you are required to state the effect of the technique you have identified. This is often the trickiest part of writing TEE paragraphs. The effect is not just how the device impacts you, the reader, but how it contributes to the meaning of the whole text.
I am providing here a list of possible effects. Some are fairly general, while others might be specific to the text.
In Rhetoric (as a subject) literary devices are chosen for the purpose of emphasis, or in order to persuade, inform, express or entertain. You may have been taught about Ethos, Pathos and Logos, so you can use them too.
However, you can use the following as effects:
- contribution to structure
- creates amusement
- prompts pleasure
- prompts surprise
- prompts empathy
- contributes to voice
- adds to tone
- creates an image
- sound effects
- suggests connotation
- reinforces the theme
- creates a contrast
- creates drama
- build or releases tension
- builds characterisation
- contributes to establishing setting
- creates irony
- contributes to mood or atmosphere
- contributes to pace (either speeds up or slows down reading)
- creates verisimilitude or mimesis (the appearance of being real or true)
- foreshadowing
- the effect is accumulative
- creates an original or distinctive image/comparison/experience
- emphasis
- creates an impression of immediacy/ad libbing
- understatement or hyperbole
- contributes to representation of something
- presents a paradox
- presents ambiguity
- contributes to textual cohesion or unity
- how form supports function
If you find the device is ineffective, or you judge it as unsuccessful, you might name the effect as:
- bathos
- cliche
- purple prose
- droll
You might call the character flat rather than round, or a stereotype.
You can comment on how the device relates to other elements of the text to contribute to the whole meaning of the text. That may be in terms of accumulation of effects, forming a motif or a series of sounds, or a lexical chain, either continuing or contrasting.
Overall, you can say how the use of the device contributes to creating an experience for the reader, whether that experience is to follow the logic of a non-fiction piece, or, for fiction, to allow the reader to feel they were present at an event that is presented by the writer.
