Appeals
Example 1
Rhetorical Device
Definition
Example
100

What is pathos?

Emotional Appeal

100

Sleeping in my bed is like sleeping on a cloud.

Simile

100

The repetition of words at the begging of successive words, clauses, or phrases 

Anaphora

100

Personification

A literary device that assigns human qualities and attributes to objects or non-human things.

100

Where art thou?

Rhetorical Question

200

Why is ethos important?

It makes the audience trust and believe the speaker/author.

200

Calling down the hall and into the stall. 

Assonance/Consonance

200
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text

Consonance

200

Epistrophe

The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. 

200

Hungry, I am. 

Anastrophe

300

Why is logos important?

It provides concrete, factual evidence to support your claim. 

300

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Antithesis

300

A figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as"  

Simile

300

Metaphor

A comparison between two things not using like or as

300

Slimy snakes slither slowly. 

Alliteration or Consonance 

400

"I've worked at Pick n Save for 59 years"

Ethos

400

The tea screamed at me when it was ready.

Personification

400

A reference to something else/when a writer mentions some other work or refers to an earlier part of the current work. 

Allusion

400

Assonance

The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words

400

I ate peanuts, I ate cake, and I ate pizza. 

Parallelism or anaphora 

500

Who invented the three appeals?

Aristotle 

500

She devoured the apple like Eve. 

Allusion

500

A figure of speech in which the  normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed. 

Anastrophe

500

Imagery

Detailed language that appeals to the 5 senses

500

The sky cried.

Personification 

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