Rhetorical Terms I
The three rhetorical appeals used in persuasion. Define them.
What is ethos, logos, pathos?
Ethos=author's cred.
Logos=logic & reasoning
Pathos=emotions
Is a phrase, word, or clause indicated by a pronoun.
If there’s a pronoun in a standalone sentence, you’ll need to include this with it.
What is an antecedent?
A question that expects no answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
In combination of identifying author's choices, you should also identify this.
What is purpose?
Mighteth I interest thee in a noggin of mead? They call me the "Bard of Avon," but I can be your Midsummer Night's Dream. #drama
Who is William Shakespeare?
A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing.
Give an example.
What is apostrophe?
Examples will vary but should include "O" or personification of something.
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
What is anaphora?
A grammatical structure where the subject of a sentence is acted upon by the verb rather than performing the action.
What is passive voice?
Draw Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle
Triangle should contain author, audience, & purpose
If you like Pina Coladas and shedding the shackles of Capitalism, peep my book "Das Kapital" and let's escape to a communist utopia.
Who is Karl Marx?
This occurs by placing any two things together, be they similar or different, to create a contrast or highlight specific qualities.
(Usually seeks to create visual or thematic contrasts to deepen understanding or evoke emotion rather than rhetorical impact.)
What is juxtaposition?
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.
What is metonymy?
This occurs when the intended subject of the modifier is missing from the sentence, and instead another subject appears in its place.
Often takes the form of an introductory phrase that is connected to the wrong thing.
What is a dangling modifier?
This is a mix of the elements we just reviewed: rhetorical appeals, tone, diction, syntactical choices, figurative language, anecdotes, analogies.
What is style?
Philly girl 4 eva! You think you're better than me? I sewed the first American Flag (okay, maybe I didn't)
#FlyEaglesFly
Who is Betsy Ross?
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it.
What is synecdoche?
A type of deductive reasoning where a conclusion is drawn from two premises.
1-No fish can survive without water.
2-Sharks are fish.
Conclusion-Therefore, sharks cannot survive without water.
What is syllogism?
This grammatical construction shows equal ideas; for emphasis; for rhythm.
"I came. I saw. I conquered."
What is parallelism?
Imagery, metaphor, simile, analogy, personification, allusion make up this topic.
What is figurative language?
German, atheist, insane, mustache, the whole package and I wrote "The Birth of Tragedy;" swiping left will only make me sexier.
Who is Fredrich Nietzche?
A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form. i.e. "inverted parallelism"
What is chiasmus?
A rhetorical term for a succession of clauses or sentences of approx. equal length and corresponding structure.
"Nothing that's beautiful hides its face. Nothing that's honest hides its name."
What is isocolon?
Details after the subject and verb forms this type of sentence.
Effect: Reader knows the main action from the beginning; all the modifiers (description) serve to elaborate; also allows the writer to mass attributes/ideas that seem to “sprout” from the main clause
What is a loose sentence?
Define SPACE CATS.
Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence
Choices, Appeals, Tone, (Tone) Shifts
Nurse, night owl, dubbed "the lady with the lamp" because a date with me is lit: no hypochondriacs, I have Crimean fever.
Who is Florence Nightingale?