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Rhetorical Devices
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Modes of Discourse
Rhetorical analysis
More Rhetorical Devices
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Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a Simile
100
Arguments using legitimate fear to incite panic
What are Scare Tactics
100
Telling a story through a near "movie-like" setup with points, a main idea, and a theme
What is Narration
100
DIDLS is an acronym for...
What is Diction, Imagery, Details, Language, and Syntax
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"While Fern was in school Wilbur was shut up inside his yard"
What is Subordination
200
"Never trick a trickster and never let a trickster trick you"
What is Chiasmus
200
Arguments which exaggerate the likely consequences of an action, usually to frighten readers
What is a Slippery Slope
200
Must contain a purpose in the comparing of two separate ideas or topics, explaining why they differ substantially
What is Comparison and Contrast
200
SOAPSTone is an acronym for...
What is Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, and Tone
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"She was as quiet as a mouse"
What is an Analogy
300
"Need a hand?"
What is Metonymy
300
Implies that there is no opposing argument
What is Dogmatism
300
Takes one item and breaks it up into its parts, primarily for the readers sake in understanding the main question
What is Division
300
Each body paragraph must contain these main parts
What is The Says, Does, Because
300
Addressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present
What is Apostrophe
400
A figure of speech, which balances a contrasting thought in parallel arrangements
What is Antithesis
400
An argument that draws interference from insufficient evidence
What is Hasty Generalization
400
Usually describes a real-life situation about the idea you are trying to convey using examples to clarify your point
What is Exemplification
400
Two independent clauses joined by a conjunction is this type of syntactical sentence
What is a Compound Sentence
400
The omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words and phrases
What is Asyndeton
500
"He is a U.S. citizen, therefore he is entitled to due process"
What is Enthymeme
500
Chooses to refute arguments that go beyond the opposition's claim
What is The Straw Man
500
Asks the question "how does this process occur" without giving instructions or a way of answering the question
What is Process Analysis
500
These to questions are asked of by the "because" portion of a rhetorical essay
What is How and Why
500
"The ice-cream was not too bad"
What is Litote