Rhetorical Devices
A Semester of Authors
Rhetorical Applications
Writing Workshop Minis
Also Found in the Kitchen
100

This rhetorical device is a brief story that happened to the speaker. It is usually funny or interesting.

What is an anecdote?

100

This author wrote The Scarlet Letter?

Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

100

This rhetorical appeal can be established by things like status, professionalism, celebrity endorsement, etc.

What is ethos?

100

This formatting type is used in the "humanities" courses and should be used for all essays in Ms. Turner's English class. 

What is MLA?

100

If you reach one of these in the road, you have to make a decision on which path you take

What is fork?

200

This rhetorical device is considered a direct comparison as it doesn't use the words "like" or "as" to make the connection.

What is a metaphor?

200

This author wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation".

Who is William Bradford?
200

This rhetorical appeal is often implemented by the speaker/writer's attempt to make a connection with the audience through personal experience and common human beliefs.

What is pathos?

200

These are specific type of sentences found at the start of your body paragraphs and give an idea of where your paragraph is headed.

What are topic sentences?

200

The name of this utensil also means to nestle while lying and facing another's back.

What is spoon?

300

This rhetorical device is seen through the asking of a question that doesn't need or require an answer.

What is a rhetorical question?

300

This author wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Who is Jonathan Edwards?

300

This rhetorical appeal is often seen through the use of background research and a well built argument.

What is logos?

300

This sentence or these sentences are found at the end of your introductory paragraph and highlight your intentions for the essay.

What is a thesis?

300

This 4-letter verb can mean to descend or drop in value.

What is sink?

400

This rhetorical device is defined as "the act of purposefully using harsh sounds".

What is cacophony?

400

This author wrote "Coyote and the Buffalo".

Who is Mourning Dove or Christine Quintasket?

400

This rhetorical appeal is often seen through the specific language for the time in which the original was written and for the ways in which the text is remembered in history.

What is Kairos?

400

This type of essay is used to understand an individual within a text and how the interact and/or impact the work in which they live.

What is a character analysis?

400

Before "away" it means to sweep someone off on a jaunty holiday.

What is whisk?

500

This term is defined as "the art of effective or persuasive communication, particularly focusing on the use of figures of speech and other linguistic techniques.

What is rhetoric?

500

This author wrote "Wakefield".

Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

500
This philosopher is considered the father of Rhetoric.

Who is Aristotle?

500

The four main characters in The Scarlet Letter are considered dynamic because they do this within the story.

What is change?

500

This God's Roman equivalent was Faunus

Who is Pan?

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