Rhetorical Situation
Rhetorical Devices
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Rhetorical Analysis
100
This is who the author intends to read or view their work.
What is the intended audience?
100

“Where now? Who now? When now?”

What is Epistrophe?

100

This is another way to say "word."

What is Diction.

100
This is a comparison using "Like" or "As."
What is Simile?
100
"We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us." This quote is an example of an appeal to _______.
What is pathos
200
These are the three purposes which most writers write with.
What is persuade, inform, and express.
200
  • “Be bold. Be brief. Be gone.”

What is anaphora?

200
This is an appeal to the audience's sympathies and emotions.
What is Pathos
200
This is a short descriptive account or story, frequently personal or biographical.
What is Anecdote
200
"It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago." This is an example of an appeal to _______.
What is logos .
300

This is what is happening outside of the immediate situation that may influence the author's message.

What is the context.

300
  • You look awfully pretty in that coat.

What is oxymoron.

300

Author's who use ethos are appealing to their audience's sense of _______.

What is trust/credibility?

300
This is a statement that sharply contrasts two ideas in a short, parallel sentence or phrase.
What is Antithesis.
300
"There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger." This is an example of the rhetorical device, _________, and the rhetorical appeal, __________.
What is Parallelism and Pathos
400

The person writing, speaking, directing a piece.

What is speaker.

400

“With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
could not see to see.”

What is synesthesia?

400
Authors who use Logos typically rely heavily on these two things.
What is facts and statistics (will also take logical reasoning or structure).
400

"Possessed by what we now no more possessed.”

What is epanalepsis?

400
  • “You stood up for America, now America must stand up for you.” – Barack Obama, December 14, 2011. This is an example of the rhetorical device, _________, and it also appeals to _______.


What is antimetabole and logos.

500

This is what calls the author to action.

What is the exigence.

500

"Fair is foul and foul is fair.”

What is antimetabole?

500

Appealing to an author's character.

What is ethos.

500

You won't be sorry.

What is litotes.

500

FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION. "You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing upon stage at the UN? It's a good question and trust me, I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better." This passage is an example of what rhetorical devices and which appeals? Explain your answer.

Rhetorical question, concession, parallelism; appeals primarily to ethos.

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