Appeals
The art of persuasion
What is rhetoric?
This is when a writer uses the same word or words over and over again.
What is Repetition?
This device makes a simple comparison between two things.
What is Metaphor?
This device overexaggerates things for the rhetorical effect.
What is Hyperbole?
This device recalls a famous or well-known person, story, or object.
What is Allusion?
This refers to how writers and speakers manipulate the audience's emotions
What is Pathos?
This is when a writer uses the same grammatical structure over and over again.
This device make a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
This device understates something for effect.
What is Litotes?
The device is in the name. Isn't it obvious?
What is a Rhetorical Question?
This refers to the use of logical thinking and reasoning to persuade.
What is Logos?
This is when an author uses the same word or phrases at the start of sentences or clauses.
What is anaphora?
A complex or extended comparison of two or more things.
This device understates the significance of an event.
What is Meiosis?
What is Epithet?
This is the building of a speaker's credibility.
What is Ethos?
This is when an author uses the same grammatical structure to show things in contrast.
What is Antithesis?
"Mjolnir appeared like a puzzle glued together."
What is Simile?
This device pauses an argument to provide clarity.
What is Parenthesis?
Contrary to popular belief, this device is about an unexpected outcome rather than a coincidental occurrence.
What is Irony?
This is the role of time and timeliness in an argument.
What is Kairos?
This device is used in the sentence, "No pain, no gain."
What is Antithesis?
Tyranny is to Hell as Freedom is to Heaven.
What is Analogy?
"I drove my car into a telephone pole last night."
"Eh, could be worse."
What is Meiosis?
This is when two opposing truths are used together to self-contradict. As Socrates said, "I know one thing: that I know nothing."
What is a Paradox?