Rhetorical Situation
An appeal to your emotions uses this rhetorical device.
What is ethos?
When words are used to suggest the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is Irony?
a question posed by the speaker which has an obvious answer, no answer, or is the argument the speaker or writer intends to answer in an effort to further prove their argument.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
The placing of contrasting settings, characters, or other literary elements in opposition between paragraphs or between sections of text to highlight an intended disparity.
What is Juxtaposition?
a form of a regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or strategically placed paragraphs: “I have a dream…”
Whta is anaphora?
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
What is Tone?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
The writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.
What is Allusion? (common ball knowledge)
contradiction; two contradictory terms or ideas used together: “Parting is such sweet sorrow, ” “jumbo shrimp”
Whta is Oxymoron?
one word that makes the reader think of all things in the class, so “all hands on deck” refers to all helpers; the Crown refers to the institution of royalty.
What is Synecdoche?
When the ad says the phone has 512 GB and a 7 MP front camera, it's using this rhetorical appeal.
What is a logical appeal? (logos)
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
an organizational strategy that begins with a broad generalization and moves to specific observations. If all planets orbit a star, and Theta II is a planet, then it must orbit a star.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
A figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is Metaphor?
"A cool breeze carried carnival music and the aroma of popcorn my way. Just over the rise the lights blinked in a million colors." This appeal to the senses and the mental picture are this literary device.
What is a imagery?
The authors direct message to the audience, usually located at the end of a speech.
When the first letters of words are the same as in: She shook the shears at the sheep.
What is alliteration?
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
What is satire?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
the placing of opposing or contrasting ideas and/or words within the same sentence or very close together to emphasize their disparity: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”
What is antithesis?
The authors timing of the speech, or timing of the allusions or refrences the author makes during the speech.
What is Kairos?
When you compare someone to a summer's day, you're using this literary device.
What is Analogy?
When the writing changes direction in tone or message, it is called this.
What is a tonal shift?
A statement that seems contradictory but reveals a deeper truth, like "She loved him, and yet would die a happy woman if she never saw him again"
What is Paradox?
"Buzz", "Boom" and " Bang" are this type of literary device, a written form of a sound.
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