Rhetorical Devices
Reuse of the same words or phrases to create emphasis.
What is repetition?
An exaggeration making something small seem bigger than it is.
What is Hyperbole?
A social structure with the most powerful at the top and least powerful at the bottom.
What is hierarchy?
In this work, the Handicapper General decides which people are too smart, strong and beautiful and assigns handicaps.
What is Harrison Bergeron?
Mrs. Hall has this breed of dog.
What is a Shiba Inu?
An appeal to logic.
What is Logos?
A work that mocks institutions, social rules, ideas, individuals, or human nature in general.
What is satire?
Adjusting to move at the same rate and in the same way.
What is Synchronizing?
In this speech, the president listed the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
What is FDR's Four Freedoms speech?
Mrs. Hall studied in this foreign country in college.
What is Scotland?
An appeal to Emotion.
What is Pathos?
DAILY DOUBLE
An exaggeration that makes something big or important seem smaller than it is.
What is Understatement?
A state of great confusion or uncertainty.
What is turmoil?
In this video, an old woman believes she has achieved her freedom when she can spell her own name.
What is Silvia's Legacy?
Mrs. Hall plays this musical instrument.
What is the Trombone?
DAILY DOUBLE
A type of repetition that uses opposites to create emphasis.
What is Antithesis?
What is diction?
A stable starting spot.
What is beachhead?
In this short story, a man get a job at the censorship bureau in order to intercept a letter he wrote to his friend.
What is The Censors?
Mrs. Hall previously student taught in this school district.
What is Milton School District?
A type of repetition that repeats the beginning of a phrase or sentence.
What is Anaphora?
What is Syntax?
trying to weaken, damage, or destroy an established system, government, authority, or set of beliefs.
What is subversive?
In this speech, the president addresses nations all around the world to warn them that America is not afraid to fight for freedom.
Mrs. Hall does this yarn related hobby in her free time.
What is Crochet?