Rhetorical Devices
This is a when an author uses details, description, and sensory language to paint a picture in their reader's mind.
What is Imagery?
This is what they are asking you to analyze on the Rhetorical Analysis Essay.
What are the author's Rhetorical choices?
The prompt for this essay will be based on...
This prompts asks you to....
What is synthesizing information from different sources?
This is the use of repeated conjunctions within a sentence or group of sentences.
What is Polysyndeton?
This is the other term for Word Choice.
What is Diction?
What is Evidence and Commentary?
This is where your evidence comes from for this prompt.
What is MY BRAIN/My Own Knowledge?
Your focus should be on...
Your evidence and commentary!!
This is the repetition of words at the beginning of sentences.
What is Anaphora?
This is the author's attitude toward the subject they are writing about.
What is tone?
You must mention and analyze these within your response.
What are Rhetorical Devices?
Your focus should be on developing your...
The whole paper should center around this.
What is Your Argument?
This is a way to say something in a "Sugar-coated" way, or a way that is more appropriate for formal conversations.
What is a Euphemism?
This is the repetition of sentence structures within a piece of writing.
What is Parallelism?
This is a part of the Rhetorical Triangle, and must be a part of your thesis for the Rhetorical Analysis.
What is the Author's message/purpose?
You can use these to help develop your Evidence & Commentary.
You must use this many sources in your response.
What is 3?
This is a failure of Logic or Reasoning.
What is a Fallacy?
This is a specific type of syntax that omits conjunctions within longer sentences.
What is Asyndeton?
What is the Rhetorical Situation?
This is NOT what you should do throughout this essay.
What is summarizing the sources?
What is this an example of: "I must be cruel, only to be kind."?
What is a Paradox? (A statement that appears to contradict itself)