Rhetorical Devices
This rhetorical device is a brief story that happened to the speaker. It is usually funny or interesting.
What is an anecdote?
This author wrote The Scarlet Letter?
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This rhetorical appeal can be established by things like status, professionalism, celebrity endorsement, etc.
What is ethos?
This formatting type is used in the "humanities" courses and should be used for all essays in Ms. Turner's English class.
What is MLA?
If you reach one of these in the road, you have to make a decision on which path you take
What is fork?
This rhetorical device is considered a direct comparison as it doesn't use the words "like" or "as" to make the connection.
What is a metaphor?
This author wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation".
This rhetorical appeal is often implemented by the speaker/writer's attempt to make a connection with the audience through personal experience and common human beliefs.
What is pathos?
These are specific type of sentences found at the start of your body paragraphs and give an idea of where your paragraph is headed.
What are topic sentences?
The name of this utensil also means to nestle while lying and facing another's back.
What is spoon?
This rhetorical device is seen through the asking of a question that doesn't need or require an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
This author wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This rhetorical appeal is often seen through the use of background research and a well built argument.
What is logos?
This sentence or these sentences are found at the end of your introductory paragraph and highlight your intentions for the essay.
What is a thesis?
This 4-letter verb can mean to descend or drop in value.
What is sink?
This rhetorical device is defined as "the act of purposefully using harsh sounds".
What is cacophony?
This author wrote "Coyote and the Buffalo".
Who is Mourning Dove or Christine Quintasket?
This rhetorical appeal is often seen through the specific language for the time in which the original was written and for the ways in which the text is remembered in history.
What is Kairos?
This type of essay is used to understand an individual within a text and how the interact and/or impact the work in which they live.
What is a character analysis?
Before "away" it means to sweep someone off on a jaunty holiday.
What is whisk?
This term is defined as "the art of effective or persuasive communication, particularly focusing on the use of figures of speech and other linguistic techniques.
What is rhetoric?
This author wrote "Wakefield".
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Who is Aristotle?
The four main characters in The Scarlet Letter are considered dynamic because they do this within the story.
What is change?
This God's Roman equivalent was Faunus
Who is Pan?