Rhetorical
Devices
Devices
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
Is this Ethos, Logos, or Pathos?
Logos
What is hyperbole?
An exaggerated statement or claim that is not meant to be taken literally.
The main Idea or point of the story?
Theme
Definition of Futile.
Useless
What type of Irony is this?
Fortunado is going to die, but he does not know, the audience does.
Dramatic Irony
What Rhetorical Device involves feelings
Pathos
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could."
What type of Figurative Language is this?
Hyperbole
Which term refers to the feeling the reader gets from a text?
Mood
"Fearful, Chris jumped off a crag. Falling 100 feet down into the water."
What does Crag mean?
Large steep rocky cliff.
What type of Irony is this?
Joseph says "Nice weather we're having," but there is a really bad storm occurring.
Verbal Irony
Ethos
What type of Figurative Language uses "Like" or "as."
Simile
Which term refers to the writer's attitude towards the subject of their writing?
Tone
Double Point Question!!!
What does Impunity mean?
What type of Irony is this?
A wedding is held in a desert that hasn't rained in 100 years. On the day of the wedding, it rains.
Situational Irony
Is this Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
I began a small business when I was twelve: mowing and caring for lawns. I’m happy to speak at the small business association today.
Ethos
What type of figurative language is this
Life is a Highway
Metaphor
Rotten, rancid, and stench, are words that create what type of sensory imagery?
Smell
What does outlandish mean?
Something looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar.
What type of irony is this?
In the "Cask of Amontillado," Montresor drinks Fortunado's "long life."
Verbal Irony
rhetorical or persuasive appeal to the audience’s logic and rationality.
Logos
What type of figurative language is this?
Lightning danced across the sky.
Personification
"The man was generous enough to give me a free meal and a place to stay."
What type of connotation is the word generous?
positive
These Tunnels were made to store bones or old graves.
Catacombs
An ambulance comes to a woman's house to take her to the hospital, hopefully, to save her life. On the way to the hospital, the ambulance is hit by a semi-truck, and everyone onboard the ambulance is killed.
Situational Irony