Rhetorical Appeals.
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Rhetorical Devices
100

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

What is Rhetoric? 

100

Very Beautiful or lovely.

Exquisite

100

State of unthinking or satisfied acceptance

Complacency. 

100

Serving to deliver from sorrow, make amends or pay back. 

redemptive 

100

Strong Dramatic words and phrases that appeal to the listeners emotions. 

Charged Language

200

An appeal to Authority. 

Ethos

200

Dazzling gorgeous 

Resplendent 
200

strong desire, longing 

Yearning. 

200

cruel or unjust treatment. 

Oppression. 

200

Repetition of a grammatical structure or an arrangement of words to create rhythm an momentum 

Charged Language. 

300

An Appeal to emotion.

Pathos

300

Something done to honor someone 

Homage

300

Grown weak; lived under distressing conditions. 

Languished. 

300

Prosperity

good fortune; success

300

Repetition of a grammatical structure or an arrangement of words to create rhythm and momentum 

Parallelism 

400

An appeal to logic. 

Logos. 

400

Lazily: without taking action. 

Idly 

400

elevated 

Exalted

400

Something Perceived that has no reality 

Hallucination 

400

Frequent use of the same words to reinforce concepts 

Repetition 

500

A technique or word construction that a speaker or writer uses to win an audience to their side. EX. Charged Language, Parallelism, and Analogy.   

Rhetorical Device. 

500

State of being inactive and not moving or changing. 

Stagnation. 

500

Great trouble or misery 

Tribulations. 

500

Given to extended thought. 

Meditative.

500

Comparison between two seemingly unlike things that illustrates or clarifies a concept. 

Analogy 

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