Rhetorical Devices
Shells were to ancient culture as dollar bills are to modern culture.
What is an Analogy?
What happens to a dream deferred?
What is a Rhetorical Question?
An appeal to logic
What is logos?
An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience usually expressed through word choice.
What is tone?
An appeal to credibility
What is ethos?
Justice is blind
What is Personification?
An appeal to emotion
What is pathos?
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
What is an Aphorism?
Using artful language effectively to please or persuade.
What is Rhetoric?
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air.
What is Anaphora?
When the enemy struck on that June day of 1950, what did America do? It did what it always has done in all its times of peril. It appealed to the heroism of its youth.
What is Hypophora?
Time is a thief
What is Metaphor?
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe.
What is Parallelism?
Better late than never.
What is Juxtaposition?
He is a real Romeo with the ladies.
What is an Allusion?
The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank of moldering wood and rat droppings.
What is Imagery?
“It’s a bit warm”- When it is 110 degrees outside.
What is Understatement?