Literary Devices
This is an example of what literary device?
"We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans...we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets..."
Anaphora
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words...How dare you?"
Greta Thunberg
Which rhetorical appeal is this: "And yet I am one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying Entire ecosystems are collapsing."
Appeal to pathos
Which of the rhetorical appeals does a successful, convincing speaker us?
All 3: logos, pathos and ethos
What literary device is this:
"You ask, what is our policy?....You ask, what is our aim?"
Rhetorical Question
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
Who is Winston Churchill?
What are the two parts to ethos?
Credibility and Morality (social values)
What is one of the ways that Churchill inspires credibility through his speaking?
1. He is articulate and uses rhetorical devices to make his points.
2. He doesn't downplay the severity of the situation. He acknowledges that it is going to be hard which gives him credibility.
"I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all cost, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be."
What is repetition?
"So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us--we who have to live with the consequences."
Who is Greta Thunberg?
What rhetorical appeal is this:
"With today's emission levels, the remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within 8 and a half years."
What is the main idea of Great Thunberg's "How Dare You?" speech?
This is an example of metaphor and what other literary device?
"I will hit the ground running, come out swinging, and end up winning."
What is parallelism?
"I've been a Republican in times good, and I've been a Republican in times bad."
Who is Phil Davison?
What rhetorical appeal did local politician Phil Davison primarily use in his speech to the Republican Primary Committee?
Pathos
Besides the British Parliament to whom he is speaking directly, who else is Winston Churchill's intended audience?
America, British citizens, other Allied countries
What is this literary device?
"Albert Einstein issued one of my most favorite quotes in the history of the spoken word, and it is: 'In the middle of difficulty likes opportunity.'"
What is allusion?
"Is there any hard limit that I have in terms of legislation that I touch? Are there any limits on the laws I can write or influence?"
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
What rhetorical appeal is this: "to wage war with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime."
Ethos
At the end of his "we shall fight" speech, Churchill refers to America, but doesn't use the term "America," "The United States" or "USA." What does he refer to America as?
The New World