Rhetorical Devices
Shells were to ancient culture as dollar bills are to modern culture.
What is Analogy
The author of an article about healthy eating describes their background in nutrition.
What is Ethos
What helps the Audience visualize an item or subject?
What is Description
What does the O stand for in SOAPSTONE?
What is Occasion
Because Amy is stressed out about the garbage in the back yard
Because Amy is stressed out about the garbage in the backyard.
An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience usually expressed through word choice.
What is Tone
If you do all of your work, you will pass all of your classes.
What is Logos
What is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story?
What is Narration
What does the A stand for in SPACECAT?
What is Audience
My grandmother is 86 years old therefore she walks very slowly
My grandmother is 86 years old; therefore, she walks very slowly.
A seeming contridiction that in fact reveals some truth.
What is Paradox
A speaker's credibilty- the ethics or values of a speaker and a work.
What is Ethos
What aims to persuade an audience to an idea?
What is Argumentation
What does the P stand for in SPACECAT?
What is Purpose
During the night, the stars that came out like diamonds on black velvet
During the night, the stars came out like diamonds on black velvet.
What happens to a dream deferred?
What is Rhetorical Question
The use of reason as a controlling principle in an argument.
What is Logos
What gives background information to an audience?
What is Exposition
What does the E stand for in CHELPS?
What is Economics/Environment
This year’s senior class being more involved than last year’s
This year's senior class is more involved than last year's.
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air.
What is Anaphora
A teenager tries to convince his parents to buy him a new car by saying if they cared about their child's safety they'd upgrade him.
What is Pathos
What uses the 5 senses?
What is Description
What does the second A stand for in SPACECAT?
What is Appeals
June found a squirrel lying dead in a ditch she didn’t tell Henry
June found a squirrel lying dead in a ditch; she didn't tell Henry.