Persuasive Appeals
Appeals Examples
Figurative Language
Device and Language Examples
Definitions
100
The three persuasive appeals
What is ethos, logos, and pathos
100

As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results.

What is Ethos?

100
a quick comparison using like or as.
What is a SIMILE
100
BOOM, ZIP, POW
What is ONOMATOPOEIA
100
Rhetorical Question
What is a question to make a point, not to get an answer.
200
Uses facts, quotations, and statistics.
What is LOGOS
200

I'm not just invested in this community — I love every building, every business, every hard-working member of this town.

What is Pathos?

200
attribution of human qualities to inanimate things.
What is PERSONIFICATION
200
Tow truck breaking down.
What is IRONY
200
Allusion
What is a reference to a famou person, place, or event.
300
Includes emotionally loaded language.
What is PATHOS
300

More than one hundred peer-reviewed studies have been conducted over the past decade, and none of them suggests that this is an effective treatment for hair loss

What is Logos?

300
A comparison that provides a picture to help understand an idea.
What is METAPHOR
300
Sally sells seashells by the seashore
What is ALLITERATION
300

Antithesis

The rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences.

400
Builds an author's credibility and trustworthiness.
What is ETHOS
400

Based on the dozens of archaeological expeditions I've made all over the world, I am confident that those potshards are Mesopotamian in origin.

What is Ethos?


400
"School is like a carnival of learning"
What is SIMILE
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

Metonymy

A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing to represent another.

500

Place or time

Kairos

500

The ASPCA Ads

What is Pathos?

500
Make up a line of personification.
What is *answers vary*
500

John and his license expired last week

What is Zeugma?

500

Synecdoche

A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole.

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