Principles of Rhetoric
Rhetorical Devices
A Modest Proposal/Vocabulary
Political Cartoons/Satire
Satire Vocabulary
100
Appealing to logic; argument focusing on evidence and reasoning.
What is LOGOS?
100
Cause if you’re willing to go through all the battling you gotta go through to get where you wanna get -- Who’s got the right to stop you?
What is rhetorical question?
100
The author of "A Modest Proposal". The patriot, despite himself.
Who is Jonathan Swift?
100
The purpose of satire.
What is constructive, social improvement?
100
Humor that depends on comic imitation or absurdity.
What is Burlesque?
200
Appealing to emotions; arguments appealing to outrage and pity.
What is PATHOS.
200
They send drugs in Harlem down here to pacify us! They send alcohol down here to pacify us! They send prostitution down here to pacify us!
What is parallel structure?
200
A deep, long-lasting sadness.
What is melancholy?
200
The person, place, or thing being satirized.
What is the global warming and the sea level?
200
A word or phrase open to two separate interpretations.
What is double entendre?
300
Appealing to character; moral arguments appealing principles and values.
What is ETHOS.
300
Time is a thief.
What is a metaphor?
300
The manner in which Swift proposed to make the misplaced children an opportunity as opposed to a burden.
What is consuming babies?
300
The message that makes the cartoon satire as opposed to simple comedy.
In order for change, people must do something now so the sea level doesn't rise.
300
Enlarge or alter beyond normal conditions.
What is exaggeration?
400
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
What is LOGOS.
400
I'm as happy as a lark.
What is a simile?
400
Remarkably impressive to a great degree.
What is prodigious?
400
The person, place, or thing being satirized.
Who is Gaddafi?
400
Humor holding human vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings up to criticism.
What is satire?
500
Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts.
What is ETHOS.
500
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
What is an antithesis?
500
Asking someone persistently to do something for you.
What is importuning?
500
The message that makes the cartoon satire as opposed to simple comedy.
What is Gaddafi's extreme arrogance and pride?
500
Placed close together for contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
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