Rhetorical Techniques
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Strategies
Word Terms
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What is the purpose of rhetorical techniques within a piece of writing?
What is to evoke emotions within the reader or the audience?
100
When there’s the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words.
What is alliteration?
100
What is the appeal of a text to the credibility and charter of the speaker?
What is ethos?
100
Define Hyperbole
What is exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?
200
A generally bitter comment that is ironically or satirically worded. However, not all satire and irony are _____. It is the bitter, mocking tone that separates _____ from mere verbal irony or satire
What is sarcasm?
200
A comparison or referring one thing to another
What is metaphor?
200
What is pathos?
What is an appeal to the emotions of the audience
200
Provide an example of a hasty generalization:
A conclusion made about all or many instances of a phenomenon, that has been reached on the basis of one or a few instances of that phenomenon
Ex. A dog bit me, so all dogs must be violent.
300
An attractive but unreliable piece of reasoning. Writers do not want to make obvious fallacies in their reasoning, but they are often used unintentionally, or when the writer thinks they can get away with _____.
What is faulty logic?
300
When something is given human like characteristics
What is personification?
300
What is logos?
What is an appeal to the audiences logic and rationality?
300
Give 3 different types of evidence
What is quantitative evidence, qualitative evidence and first-hand evidence?
400
A pair of statements or images in which the one reverses the other. The pair is written with similar grammatical structures to show more contrast.
What is antithesis?
400
What uses the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of a sentence, clause, or line?
What is anaphora?
400
What is the definition of inductive, and deductive reasoning?
What is inductive reasoning is a type of logical thinking that involves forming generalizations based on specific incidents you've experienced, observations you've made.
Deductive reasoning, also deductive logic, is the process of reasoning from one or more statements to reach a logical conclusion?
400
Use the word polemic in a sentence
This is a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something
Ex: His polemic words left most voters skeptical of the character of his opponent.
500
Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison. This is often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or differences, etc.
What is juxtaposition?
500
What is it called when there are two opposing terms that are placed adjacent to each other?
What is oxymoron?
500
As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results” Within this sentence is this an example of Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
What is ethos?
500
Provide an example of antimetabole
This is a literary term or device that involves repeating a phrase in reverse order
Ex. Fair is foul and foul is fair.