Rhetorical Devices
The comparison of two items using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This controversial emoji was the subject of Megan Garber's article in The Atlantic.
What is the (red) stiletto
This company was heavily criticized (and satirized) for their stereotypical portrayals of ethnic minorities, depiction of protests, and law enforcement relations in an advertisement.
What is Pepsi?
According to the Essay Companion, the number of examples you should try to include in each body paragraph.
What is two?
The three corners of the Aristotilean triangle.
What are speaker, audience, and subject?
A reference to a historical event, literary piece, or other commonly known moment/event/text.
What is an allusion?
In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Annie Pfeifer defends her daughter's choice to dress up as this for Halloween.
Who is Elsa? (Or, What Is a Disney Princess?)
The persona presented by Jonathan Swift in “A Modest Proposal” proposes that children of this country be eaten as a solution to poverty and famine.
What is Ireland?
"It really makes the reader think," "it grabs the reader's attention," and "it paints a picture in the reader's head" are all examples of these.
What are banned rhetorical analysis phrases?
These are the three appeals that are used to craft arguments.
What are appeals to logic, appeals to credibility, and appeals to emotion?
The placement of two items next to each other to make a point.
What is juxtapositioning?
According to Sarah Adams, we should be cool to this dude.
Who is the pizza dude?
This high school valedictorian read a speech at his graduation ceremony that was critical of the education he had received.
Who is Kareem Elnahal?
This is what you try to create between sources in your synthesis essay.
What is a conversation?
While useful to know what they are called, it is far more important to be able to discuss their rhetorical function.
What are rhetorical devices?
These are the strong meanings a word might carry that are different from their dictionary definitions.
What are connotations?
According to Ashley Lamb-Sinclair, these are the biggest threat to developing a love of learning.
What are grades?
In the Hopi language, this word means “life out of balance.”
What is "Koyaanisqatsi"?
According to the Essay Companion, this is what AP *actually* stands for.
What is "answer the prompt"?
The situation in which an argument takes place, it is one of the sides of the triangle.
What is context?
Several sentences or clauses organized in a similar fashion use this structure.
What is parallelism/parallel structure?
Self-investigating allegations of a human-trafficking ring in Washington D.C., Edgar Welch opened fire in this restaurant in December 2016.
What is Comet Ping Pong?
Joe Randazzo, former editor of The Onion, defends free speech after attacks on this French satirical publication.
What is Charlie Hebdo?
This is the word that really should never appear in any of your essays.
What is "you"?
This describes the speaker's attitude toward the subject, conveyed through purposeful diction.
What is tone?