Name That Strategy!
This strategy includes incorporating a short—often witty or personal—story.
What is an Anecdote?
This definition describes imagery.
What is vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses?
In William Shakespeare's play As You Like It, he wrote, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
What is a Metaphor?
The three major appeals (Ethos, Logos, Pathos) are used for this purpose.
What is to Persuade?
This holiday began as an ancient Celtic festival of Samhain in the UK, Ireland and other parts of Northern Europe.
What is Halloween?
This rhetorical strategy uses words like "we," "us," and "our."
What are Collective Pronouns?
A conjunction serves this purpose.
What is connecting two words, phrases, or sentences?
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech begins with "Five score years ago..."
What is an Allusion?
This strategy appeals to an audience’s emotions to be persuasive.
What is Pathos?
This multi-day holiday celebrates the dead with traditions like altars and food offerings.
What is Día de Muertos?
This rhetorical strategy is used when the author pushes the audience to do or feeling something.
What is a Call to Action?
Juxtaposition is when two things in the same category are placed next to each other to do this.
What is to contrast each other?
In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, he writes, “The café was like a battleship stripped for action.”
What is a Simile?
A rhetor using logical reasoning to combine a clear idea (or multiple ideas) with well-thought-out and appropriate examples and details is employing this strategy.
What is Logos?
This movie serial killer notably wears a red and green striped sweater.
Who is Freddy Krueger?
This rhetorical strategy uses words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. For example, "I just loooooove taking major exams."
What is Irony?
This rhetorical strategy could be defined as a Paradox.
What is a seemingly contradictory statement that may actually be true?
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people," is an example of this rhetorical strategy.
What is Parallelism?
This appeal demonstrates the character and expertise of a rhetor through establishing credibility.
What is Ethos?
This U.S. city is known as the “Witchcraft Capital."
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
This rhetorical strategy imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.
What is Satire?
Anaphora is repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at this part of a sentence.
What is the beginning?
Barack Obama described the American military as "the finest fighting force that the world has ever known," serving "tour after tour of duty in distant, different, and difficult places."
What is Alliteration?
This Greek philosopher, traditionally seen as the father of rhetoric, is known for coining the terms Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.
Who is Aristotle?
This 1996 horror film revolutionized the slasher genre (and also is Ms. Boelen's favorite movie).
What is Scream?