Rhetorical Strategies
What rhetorical appeal seeks to persuade the audience by evoking one’s emotions using storytelling, imagery to connect to the audience on a relatable and personal level.
Answer: Pathos.
What rhetorical device is used in this sentence?
“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players;” by William Shakespeare (As You Like It. Act II, Scene VII).
Answer: It is a Metaphor.
What does this sentence symbolize?
“In faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television.” (Holly Black, The Cruel Prince)
(faerie=new world)
Answer: This symbolizes her leaving childhood and comfort behind for a new environment.
What is an author's purpose?
Answer: The author's purpose is the reason why the author wrote the text.
What is a claim?
Answer: It’s an argument that needs evidence and reasoning to back it up.
What rhetorical appeal seeks to persuade the audience by using logic and stats to connect to the audience on an evidence-based level.
Answer: Logos
What rhetorical device is used in this sentence?
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness," (Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities)
Answer: It is Antithesis.
Analyze this phrase. What is the author describing?
"A heavy listless gurgling... vast sliding waves, grey as elephants, heaving, swelling, gloomily heaving," (Virginia Woolf, 1931 novel, The Waves.)
Answer: The author is describing the sea.
Main reason for an author to write? (hint; P.I.E)
Answer: To inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
What is a claim of fact?
Answers: It argues whether something is true or not, existing or not existing, through evidence, data, or research.
What rhetorical appeal seeks to persuade the audience by using their position and power to connect to the audience on a trust-based level.
Answer: Ethos
What rhetorical device is used in this sentence?
“Placed the length of walls, it was a long coil of shining metal blades, so there would be no way of climbing over it and no way through without getting stuck in its fangs," (Nadine Gordimer, 16). (Once Upon a Time)
Answer: Personification, since the phrase “getting stuck in its fangs” uses a human-like characteristic or animal-like characteristic on an inanimate object.
What rhetorical device is in this sentence, and how does it relate to the author's purpose?
"We are starving, and our games are feeding us."
Answer: It is a metaphor,
If they give a GOOD explanation, it's right.
What reason did the author write this? “The water cycle is the continuous movement and transformation of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface, driven by solar energy.”
Answer: To inform/educate the reader on the water cycle's continuous movement.
Is this a claim of fact, value, or policy? “Schools should provide free breakfast for all students.”
Answer: It is a claim of a policy, since it argues for a rule, law, or change.
What rhetorical strategy is in this paragraph?
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'...
In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men..." (F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby)
Answer: Ethos, since it references Nick's father's wisdom and his control in not judging others, making the narrator build credibility with the reader.
Bonus question $300 if you can answer this question. What other strategy is used in these paragraphs?
It is an anecdote since the narrator tells a personal story of his father’s advice. This is storytelling so it is an anecdote.
What rhetorical device is used in this sentence? There are two answers; if you choose to answer both, you will get 300 points on top of the points you will earn for this question if you get them both correct.
"Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a wagoner
As Phaethon would whip you to the west," by William Shakespeare (Juliet: Act 3, Scene 2).
Phoebus: Refers to the Greek god of the sun, whose chariot the "fiery-footed steeds" are understood to pull across the sky daily.
Phaethon: Is someone in mythology who tried to drive his father's sun chariot but lost control, whipping the steeds wildly.
Answer: There are two answers. First, an allusion since it talks about mythological figures.
Second, it is also personification since in the lines, Juliet implies the horses can understand and choose to act on her request.
Analyze this phrase. What has been placed on the wall?
"Placed the length of walls, it was a long coil of shining metal blades, so there would be no way of climbing over it and no way through without getting stuck in its fangs," (Nadine Gordimer, 16). (Once Upon a Time)
Answer: Barbed Wire
What is the author's purpose of this paragraph: “Every morning, Maya wakes up to the sound of birds chirping outside her window. She stretches, brews her coffee, and watches the sun rise over the city skyline. The author describes these simple moments in rich detail, showing the quiet beauty in everyday life.”
Answer: To describe
Is this a true claim? “Teenagers today are less creative than in the past. Because most teenagers spend a lot of time on social media instead of drawing or painting.”
Answer: No, the supporting evidence doesn't actually support the claim.
What rhetorical strategy is in this paragraph, and explain your answer?
"The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is." (Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird)
Answer: Logos, since in this paragraph, the narrator states the lack of evidence and the contradiction in the witnesses' testimony.
Bonus question $300 if you can answer this question. What other strategy is used in these paragraphs?
Answer: It also uses Ethos since the narrator Atticus Finch is a lawyer so it can build credibility with the reader.
What rhetorical device does this phrase use?
"I must be cruel only to be kind," (Hamlet by William Shakespeare.)
Answer: The rhetorical device that is used in this phrase is a paradox, since the phrase has two opposite ideas, "cruelty" and "kindness." It is also a paradox since it appears contradictory; however, it has a deeper meaning.
(A paradox is a statement or idea that seems to contradict itself and is often confusing; they are used in literature to show the complexity of life.)
What literary device is the author using in this paragraph?
"In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank of moldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlors stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets, damp featherbeds, and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber pots. The stench of sulfur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. People stank of sweat and unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease,"(The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind.)
Answer: The author uses imagery.
What is the author's purpose of this paragraph: “No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever,” (Animal Farm by George Orwell).
Answer: The author's purpose is to illustrate how people in power can become corrupt and betray the ones they were supposed to help.
How would you back up this claim? In The Hunger Games, Katniss represents a sacrifice?
Answer: This has multiple answers, if they gave GOOD evidence, then they got it right.