Appeals/SOAPSTONES
An appeal that relies on the speaker's trustworthiness and credibility.
What is ETHOS?
What is JUXTAPOSITION>
habitually silent; uncommunicative
What is TACITURN?
What is ADROIT?
Mother: “I see you ironed your shirt.” Boy: “But I just dug it out of the bottom of the hamper.”
This type of irony is __________________.
What is VERBAL?
The main idea of the speech.
What is SUBJECT?
"You may have to be laid off", instead of saying "You are fired."
"No longer with us" instead of "She/He is dead."
"She has a bun in the oven." instead of "She is pregnant."
These are types of this rhetorical device.
What is EUPHEMISM?
common; trite; ordinary
What is BANAL?
to praise extravagantly; glorify
What is EXTOL?
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet stabs through a curtain thinking his traitorous, murdering uncle is there, only to learn that he actually stabbed and killed the father of the woman he loves, and a man for whom he had the utmost respect and admiration.
This type of irony is called ______________.
What is DRAMATIC?
Lizzie Velasquez's attitudes in her speech we all listened to was that of positivity, forginess, and motivation to do better in life. In speech analysis this attitude towards the speaker's subject is called the ____________.
What is TONE?
What is PARADOX?
to claim or take without right
What is ARROGATE?
not affected or hurt; admitting no passage/entrance
What is IMPERVIOUS?
If you have a phobia of long words, you must tell people that you are Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobic.
This irony is called ________________.
What is SITUATIONAL?
Logos is an appeal that relies on these three factors: __________, ____________, and ___________
What are LOGIC, EVIDENCE, AND REASON?
This literary device uses targeted phrasing to make a very important development or occurrence sound less important than it really is.
What is UNDERSTATEMENT?
to avoid; keep away from
What is ESCHEW?
to examine closely
What is SCRUTINIZE?
A rat infestation at the Department of Sanitation
This type of irony is called ________________
What is SITUATIONAL?
An appeal that relies on repition and/or powerful words.
What is PATHOS?
This is a device frequently used even in ordinary conversations that uses hypothetical questions (answers are implied) to add evidence to a critical argument.
What is RHETORICAL QUESTION?
refusing to compromise
What is INTRANSIGENT?
Anyone who is (averse, cursory, impervious) to having a girls' volleyball team in our school doesnt know what's been happening in recent years with women's sports. The correct choice is this word.
What is AVERSE?
In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor lies and tells the investigator that her husband never had an affair (in fact, he had), right before John Proctor publicly declared that his wife never had—and never would—lie.
Identify the irony/ironies here.
What are SITUATIONAL AND DRAMATIC?