Rhetorical Appeals
We need to build a bigger road, because the city's population grew by 8% last year.
What is logos?
A great desire or longing.
What is yearning?
A group of words that includes a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
"dark and desolate valley"
"marvelous new militancy"
What is alliteration?
Parallelism is the use of similar __________ forms or patterns to express an idea.
What is grammatical?
Builds credibility and trustworthiness.
What is ethos?
Another word for delay (from "Letter")
What is postpone?
that, which, who, whose, whom
What are the 5 relative pronouns?
"Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana..."
What is repetition?
Make this statement parallel: I couldn't wait to try my new surfboard, to catch some waves, and for a visit to the beach.
What is: I couldn't wait to try my new surfboard, to catch some waves, and to visit the beach?
"Five score years ago, a great American, in who's symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
What is logos?
I will not sit _________ by while you get all the glory.
What is idly?
What is a relative clause?
"...twenty million negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty..."
What is imagery?
Planning, drafting, and revision are three steps in the writing process.
What is:
Planning, drafting, and revising are three steps in the writing process?
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends."
What is pathos?
Grammatical change that occurs when -tion is added to the end of the word.
What is verb to noun?
Set off by commas, because information does not impact the meaning of the sentence.
What is nonessential?
"We will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope."
What is a metaphor?
Used effectively, parallel structure adds these.
What are rhythm and connection?
"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations."
What is ethos?
"One hundred years later, the Negro is still weakened in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land."
(Replace italicized word with vocab term)
What is languished?
The relative clause in: "One of the basic points in your statement is that the action that I and my associates have taken in Birmingham is untimely."
What is, "that I and my associates have taken in Birmingham"
"To put in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law."
What is an allusion?
Olivia likes her new school: The teachers are good, the students are nice, and she likes the new building.
What is:
Olivia likes her new school: The teachers are good, the students are nice, and the building is new?