Rhetorical Strategies 0
The three overall persuasive appeals; all rhetorical and figurative devices fall into these categories.
What are ethos, logos, and pathos?
A brief comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
What is a question to make a point, not to get an answer?
Rhetorical Question
Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?
What is a rhetorical question?
**2 Answers** "He was eating a light supper at nine in the evening when the front door cried out in the hall and Mildred ran from the parlor like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius." (Ray Bradbury, F451)
What are personification and allusion?
What is alliteration?
A brief (often one sentence) comparison not using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
What is a reference to a famous person, place, event, literary work?
Allusion
You must be as swift as the coursing river
What is simile?
"Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
to reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." (John Milton, Paradise Lost)
What is antithesis?
What is parallelism?
A detailed description, intended to help a reader or audience picture a specific situation.
What is imagery?
What is a short story to make a general idea seem interesting and engage the reader?
Anecdote
What is a metaphor?
"From the very beginning, from the first moment I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that ground-work of disapprobation, on which succeeding events have built so immoveable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry." (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice)
What is hyperbole?
Using language meant to make the reader or audience feel as if they are part of the 'group' in the writing.
What is inclusive language?
Comparison of two things that are alike in theme or concept; can help clarify issues or concepts for the reader/audience to improve understanding of the topic. Is presented as an extended metaphor or simile.
What is analogy?
What is a reference to abstractions or inanimate objects as though they had human qualities or abilities?
Personification
Time is racing towards us.
There is No Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human Soul – (Emily Dickinson, There is no Frigate like a Book)
What is analogy?
Extreme exaggeration to help prove a point; often includes humor but can also be serious in nature and tone.
What is hyperbole?
Putting two, often contrasting, ideas next to each other in a sentence or passage-can also be used on two similar concepts to highlight differences and similarities.
What is contrasting an idea and its opposite to highlight the differences?
Antithesis
You're a sPineless, pale, pathetic lot...
What is alliteration?
“I’ve got a nice place here,” he said, his eyes flashing about restlessly.
Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent roses, and a snub-nosed motor-boat that bumped the tide offshore. (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)
What is understatement?