Figurative Devices
A comparison between unlike things using like or as:
"She was as fast as a cat."
"He was like a sloth."
Simile
To repeat something in order to reinforce its importance
Repetition
What are the three rhetorical strategies?
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Name the 5 Canons of Rhetoric
Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery
What do the letters of SOAPSTone stand for?
Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone
A comparison of unlike things without using like or as
"I am a butterfly."
"She is an angel."
Metaphor
What parts of this passage repeat?
"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible."
"I don't want... I don't want... I should like."
Why is Pathos important?
It creates an internal, emotional connection between the speaker, the subject, and the audience.
(something similar)
Which Canon of Rhetoric deals with avoiding errors such as saying "Um... umm.. uhh."
Memory
What could you say to explain what TONE means to someone?
It is the attitude the speaker or author takes towards the subject.
To tell a story about events that happened to you or someone you know.
Anecdote
Why is this an example of repetition?
"don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel!"
Repeating a subject - Describing / Listing the injustices against the soldiers
Why is Ethos important?
If the audience does not trust a speaker is either:
a good person, more knowledgeable than themselves, or is eliciting the advice of someone more knowledgeable than themselves then...
They will not listen to the speech or believe in what this person is saying.
Which Canon of Rhetoric deals with using pictures or images to illustrate your point?
Delivery
What part of SOAPSTone does the speaker especially need to consider in order to be effective?
Audience (Who they are talking to or trying to persuade)
An over-exaggeration used to highlight a point.
"Today is the worst day ever!"
Hyperbole
What kind of repetition is this?
"We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness. Not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another."
Antithesis
-Repetition where it ends with the opposite.
"We...want... we want... |THEN| Not by... We don't want"
Describe 1 thing you can do to achieve Ethos
Quote an expert in the field
Say you're an expert yourself
Have the backing of an expert other than yourself
In which Canon of Rhetoric would you need to decide where your speech is given and how long it would be?
Invention
What is occasion?
The event that happened to cause the speaker to write / give the speech.
To make fun of something, usually via representing that very thing, through the use of irony, humor, hyperbole, etc.
Satire
-Want, Not, Don't
Hint: Use antonyms
*EXAMPLE IS TEACHER'S CHOICE*
The primary two types of reasoning used in Logos are Deductive and Inductive Reasoning. Which is much more powerful and why?
Deductive reasoning. A direct conclusion can be drawn such as in the example: If students hate being bored and power points are boring then students therefore hate power points. In inductive reasoning a direct conclusion cannot be drawn.
In which Canon of Rhetoric would you most likely be applying Rhetorical Strategies to your speech?
Style
DESCRIBE THE TONE:
And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don't know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn't the best. We complained about it. So we've got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we've got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.
Unhappy, Negative, Sad, etc.