Rhetorical Devices 1
This is created through strong diction that is emotional.
What is tone?
The word choices that a writer specifically chooses to create a feeling or emotion.
What is diction?
Use anecdotes and sensory language to appeal to this mode.
What is pathos?
Known for shouting "how dare you?" at nation officials of a much older age.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
A personal story used to get the audience's attention and empathy.
What is an anecdote?
Words that are repeated in a certain order for strong impact on the audience.
What is repetition?
Use facts and statistics to create this mode of persuasion.
What is logos?
She made changes to the school lunch system and fought for healthier options.
Who is Michelle Obama?
Placing two different or opposing concepts, ideas, and feelings close together in order to highlight their contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
An answer for this question is not needed because the answer is obvious.
What is rhetorical question?
A professor with 30 years of knowledge on the subject would create a strong sense of this mode of persuasion.
What is ethos?
Credibility is strengthened in this Sprite ad when a certain celebrity takes a swig and suddenly feels better!
Who is Drake?
"How did we achieve this goal, you ask? Well, we followed a 3 step format. Step 1..."
What is hypophora?
"The startup expanded too fast and flew too close to the sun."
What is allusion?
My grandma flew out of the window of our car because she wasn't wearing her seatbelt! I was five and I will never not wear a seatbelt now! (She survived but I am traumatized).
What is pathos?
His famous speech is known for different uses of anaphora, one of them being, "Now is the time"
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
Identify the rhetorical device AND explain it correctly
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
What is antithesis?
The two halves of the sentence mirror each other in grammatical structure, while together the two halves emphasize the incredible contrast between the individual experience of taking an ordinary step, and the extraordinary progress that Armstrong's step symbolized for the human race.
“Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning;”
What is anaphora?
Each clause strips away a false assumption about indifference, moving from passivity (elicit no response) to a failed action (not a response) to absolute destruction (not a beginning; it is an end).
This mode can be present in a speech just by simply knowing who the speaker is.
What is ethos?
When participating in a presidential debate, he got down off of his stool and spoke directly to a woman in the crowd, and this ended up being one of his greatest successes.
Who is Bill Clinton?