Persuasive Appeals
Figurative Language
Definitions
Other Devices
Classroom Metaphors
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

___________ is a fixture, a ghost, and a terrible employee?

Who is Bartleby?

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 famou person, place, or event.
200
Tow truck breaking down.
What is IRONY
200

____ is kidnapped, subject to cruel conditions, and emerges a hero?

Who is Equiano?

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

_____________ is hopeful, rejoicing, and independent of her burnt possessions.  

Who is the narrator of  "Versus Upon the Burning of Our House?"

400
Builds an author's credibility and trustworthiness.
What is ETHOS
400
"School is like a carnival of learning"
What is SIMILE
400
Negative Definition
What is describing what something is not.
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

____________ is music, so colored, and a brown bag.

What is Zora Neale Hurston?

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

_____________ is a planter of trees, an enforcer of peace, a bounder of nations.

Who is Dekanawidah?

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