Identify the rhetorical strategy
Identify the literary device
Structural strategies
More devices!
Analyze the device
100
emotional appeals
pathos
100
using the five senses (images, sounds) to create a vivid experience for the reader
imagery
100
repetition or a word or phrase at the end of successive lines or sentences
epistrophe
100
over exaggeration
hyperbole
100
Having a friend who will always be there for you--that's something. Spending a vacation helping you recover from surgery-- that's something. Using a paycheck to help you buy books-- that's something.
epistrophe

parallelism

200
factual appeals
logos
200
comparison using like or as
simile
200
when a sentence structure is repeated
parallelism
200
reference to another text, to history, to mythology
allusion
200
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Imagery

Pathos

Logos

300
when a famous or credible person promotes or endorses a product/message
testimonial 
300
comparison of two things (without like or as)
metaphor
300
when a writer uses two contrasting ideas next to each other. Ex: not just a step, but a leap
antithesis
300
when you add more details to an idea. Ex: People, young and old, will all benefit.
amplification
300

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

metaphor

imagery

400
appealing using credibility
ethos
400
when a physical things serves as a representation of an idea or value
symbolism
400
when an author uses specific words for an intended meaning
diction
400
when you list ideas in 3
rule of 3
400

We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality; we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities; we cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one; we can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “For Whites Only”

anaphora

parallelism


500
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines
anaphora
500
giving non-human things human qualities
personification
500
the emotional meaning of a word; not necessarily its literal meaning but its suggestion
connotation
500
asking a question that has an implied answer/doesn't really need an answer
rhetorical question
500

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Allusion

Metaphor

Rule of Three

Amplification

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