The basics
A figure with five straight sides and five angles with "intention" written in the middle.
What is the rhetorical pentagon?
When human qualities are applied to an object
What is personification?
When something is mentioned more than once
What is repetition?
When you try to prove that your opponent is wrong
What is refutation?
The name of your second English teacher
Who is Linda?
Mode of persuasion appealing to reason
What is logos?
The name for this figure of speech, "your eyes are like the sun"
What is a simile?
When mentioning things that are quite different
What is a contrast?
"When the night grows dark, when injustice weighs heavy on our hearts, when our best-laid plans seem beyond our reach, let us..." (do NOT say that this is an anaphora - you need to focus on something else)
What is a tricolon?
Probably the best beer in the world
What is Carlsberg?
Mode of persuasion appealing to emotion
What is Pathos?
The name for this figure of speech, "You're the cream in my coffee"
What is a metaphor?
Something that represents something else - e.g. an object representing something more abstract
What is a symbol?
"My father is the strongest and most loving man in the whole world"
What is a hyperbole?
The quote from the Declaration of Independence that ML has mentioned to you almost a million times...
What is "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?
Mode of persuasion focusing on the credibility of the speaker
What is ethos?
The occurrence of the same letter at the beginning of words, as in "Peter picks peaches"
What is alliteration?
When an answer is not expected
What is a rhetorical question?
"Stay safe. Stay well. Stay happy. Stay alive"
What is an anaphora?
Do not construct a sentence with one of these before "that"
What is a preposition (må besvares på dansk)
The five components of the rhetorical pentagon
What are topic, speaker (or writer), audience (or reader), circumstances and language?
A rhetorical tool that refers to e.g. the Bible ("love your neighbor" is an example of this)
What is an allusion?
When you accept something that your opponent says
What is concession?
"See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"
What is an epiphora?
The name of a band and the word for something that begins on Friday
What is the Weeknd /what is weekend?