RHETORICAL TERMS

TERM

• Active voice - is a grammatical voice common in many of the world's languages
• It is the unmarked voice for clauses featuring a transitive verb in pean languages
• in nominative accusative languages, including English and most other Indo-European languages

TERM IN SENTENCE

• When a verb is in the active voice, the subject of the sentence
• is also the doer of the action.

EXAMPLE

• "The water had broken the plate-glass windows of most of the stores along the
• street and had ruined their stocks."
• (John Hersey, "Over the Mad River," 1955)

EXPLANATION

• The line from "over the mad river " is an example of the term because
• It embraces the effect of speaking thru an active voice instead
• Of an passive voice , by openly saying what happen to plate
• Glass windows .

EXPLANATION

• The line from "Over the mad river" is an example of the term
• Because it voices itself in an active voice more than passive voice
• By openly saying what the water did to the plate glass windows