RHETORICAL TRIANGLE
This rhetorical device makes its argument by appealing to one’s emotions or sense of humor.
What is PATHOS?
This satirical device plays with similar word sounds or double meanings to make a joke.
What is PUN?
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows”
What is 1984 by George Orwell?
The acquisition of this object is what sets the story’s protagonist on the track of recalling the past and questioning the present.
What is THE DIARY?
This rhetorical device employs facts, data, and logic to prove an argument.
In satire, this device uses hyperbole to make a point.
What is EXAGGERATION?
“I have reckoned upon a medium, that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar year, if tolerably nursed, increases to 28 pounds”
What is "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift?
This love interest rebels against the Party for a personal rather than an ideological agenda.
Who is JULIA?
Credibility, celebrity, and authority form the basis for this rhetorical device.
What is ETHOS?
Known as the “Father of Comedy,” this Greek playwright subverted authority by calling attention to its hypocrisies.
Who is ARISTOPHANES?
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the future controls the past”
What is 1984 by George Orwell?
To Winston, this antique object symbolizes the eternal, protected space he and Julia inhabit together.
What is THE PAPERWEIGHT?
This rhetorical style uses humor, exaggeration, and ridicule to critique individuals and society as a whole.
What is SATIRE?
This style of satire is pessimistic at its core, promoting the idea that people and systems of power are inherently corrupt.
What is JUVENALIAN?
“When you have prayed for victory, you have prayed for many unmentioned results which must follow victory”
What is "The War Prayer" by Mark Twain?
Winston dreams of a conversation with O’Brien in which he says they will meet in this location.