Persuasive Appeals
Figurative Language
Definitions
Other Devices
Vocabulary
100
The three persuasive appeals
What is ethos, logos, and pathos
100
a quick comparison using like or as.
What is a SIMILE
100
Rhetorical Question
What is a question to make a point, not to get an answer.
100
BOOM, ZIP, POW
What is ONOMATOPOEIA
100

Temperament

n. usual mood or feelings

200
Uses facts, quotations, and statistics.
What is LOGOS
200
attribution of human qualities to inanimate things.
What is PERSONIFICATION
200

Allusion

What is a reference to a famous person, place, or event.

200
Tow truck breaking down.
What is IRONY
200

Complacent

Satisfied, with no desire to change or improve .

300
Includes emotionally loaded language.
What is PATHOS
300
A comparison that provides a picture to help understand an idea.
What is METAPHOR
300
Anecdote
What is a short story to make a general idea seem interesting.
300
Sally sells seashells by the seashore
What is ALLITERATION
300

Deference

n. respect; regard

400
Builds an author's credibility and trustworthiness.
What is ETHOS
400
"School is like a carnival of learning"
What is SIMILE
400

Hyperbole

Hyperbole refers to an exaggeration. Saying "I have done this a thousand times" to indicate that you're very familiar with a task is an example of hyperbole because it is unlikely you've really performed the task a thousand times.

400
"Let us go then, you and I, While the evening is spread out against the sky, Like a patient etherized upon a table..." -T.S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
What is SIMILE
400

Nuance

n. a subtle difference in meaning

500
Give an example of each type of appeal.
What is *answers vary*
500
Make up a line of personification.
What is *answers vary*
500
Antithesis
What is contrasting an idea and its opposite.
500
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children. Martin Luther King. Jr, I Have a Dream
What is PARALLEL STRUCTURING
500

Scrupulous


adj. paying great attention to detail

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