Persuasive Rhetoric Strategies to Know
More Persuasive Rhetoric Terms
Literary Terms
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Definitions
100
What is a question to which no answer is expected because the answer is obvious.
Rhetorical Question
100
What is a rational argument, supported with objective evidence?
Logos
100
Dressy daffodils dance delicately
What is alliteration
100
In Sojourner Truth addresses her audience as "friends" and "chil'n." These affectionate terms help Truth establish common ground with her audience, so this is an example of
What is Ethos
100
When one work or art or literature makes a reference to anothr work of literature
What is an allusion
200
What is the recurrence of words, phrases, or line
Repetition
200
What is often based on specific examples of suffering. Also frequently include loaded language.
Pathos
200
The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner.'
What is a metaphor
200
Truth mentions her advanced age and her life experiece. The inclusion of both of these is an example of
What is Ethos
200
The literal meaning of a word
What is denotation
300
What is it when a speaker or writer expresses ideas of equal worth with the same grammatical form.
Parallel Structure
300
What is based on the creditability of the speaker?
Ethos
300
NAME THE TYPE OF IRONY: In the play ROMEO AND JULIET, the audience knows that Juliet appears to be dead, but is really just asleep. Romeo, however, believes she is truly dead, and takes poison to commit suicide.
What is dramatic irony
300
Sojourner Truth claims that African American women deserve equal rights because "they do as much, they want as much" as men. Drawing this conclusion is an example of
What is logos
300
An idea of feeling that a work invokes in addition to its literal meaning
What is connotation
400
What is a rhetorical strategy which is an attempt to strengthen an argument by convincing the audience that accepting the writer’s or speaker’s view will put them on the popular or apparently winning side
Bandwagon
400
What is a term used to refer to an expression that is posed as a question but which is not meant to be answered?
rhetorical statement
400
NAME THE SOUND DEVICE(S) USED: Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. / While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. / Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. / Freezy trees made these trees� cheese freeze. / That�s what made these three free fleas sneeze.
What is alliteration
400
King uses lines such as "This is our hope" and "With this faith we shall be able to transform (the nation). These references to hop and faith appeal to the audience's feelings, so this is an example of
What is Pathos
400
A word or phrase which tries to persuade a person to take immediate action.
What is a call to action
500
What is to compare as to point out striking differences
Contrast
500
What is a rhetorical device used for the purpose of emphasis; never meant to be taken literally
Exaggeration
500
NAME THE LITERARY TERM: 'Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down. Pink is the boudoir color, the cherubic color, the color of Heaven's gates... Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and bland, pink is laid back with attitude.'
What is personification
500
King reasons that his dream is only an extension of fundamental American values when she says "It is a dream rooted in the American creed." Drawing this conclusion is an example of
What is Logos
500
The part of the argument in which a speaker or writer counters opposing points of view.
What is refutation
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