Rhetorical Strategies
This is a short personal story used to make a point.
Anecdote
If you're running a race and pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Second Place
This is what the "S" stands for in SpaceCat and is one of the rhetorical components to consider when analyzing a speech:
Speaker
This is the "C" in (space) CAT:
Choices
What type of literary device is being used...
When we compare two different things showing how they are similar or equal:
"He is a moster."
This device uses details that appeal to sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch.
Imagery / Sensory Language
You are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove, a lamp, and a match. What do you light first?
the match
This is what the "A" stands for in SpaceCat and is one of the rhetorical components to consider when analyzing a speech:
Audience
One of the words in the "CAT" acronym:
What is the speaker's attitude toward the subject?
Tone
What type of literary device is being used...
When human traits are given to non-human things:
"The pencil walked off the table."
personification
This device repeats words, phrases, or sentence patterns for emphasis.
Parallel Structure
What has a head and a tail, but no body?
a coin
This is what the speaker is hoping to accomplish:
Purpose
One of the words in the "CAT" acronym; fill in the blank:
The writer uses various rhetorical strategies that __________ to their audience.
Appeal
What type of literary device is being used...
When the reader expects something to happen, but the opposite happens:
"An English teacher who cannot read."
irony
This happens when a passage moves between the past, present, or future.
Temporal or Time Shift
What goes up but never comes down?
your age
This is what is happening in the world as it relates to the subject of the speech or the speaker:
Context
One of the words in the "CAT" acronym:
This relates to diction, sentence structure, organization, layout, figures of speech, etc.
Choices
What type of literary device is being used...
When an physical object takes on deeper significance and represents non-physical ideas:
"A rose __________ love."
Symbolizes or Symbolism
This device places two different things side by side to highlight their contrast.
Juxtaposition or Dichotomy
What has to be broken before you can use it?
an egg
This is the spark or catalyst that moved the speaker to act/write:
Exigence
One of the words in the "CAT" acronym:
This one uses ethos, pathos, logos, or kairos
Appeals
What type of literary device is being used...
When there is exaggeration for emphasis:
"I am starving to death!"
hyperbole