Rhetorical Devices in WNTTAAI
“In 1972, there were 300,000 people in jails and prisons. Today, there are 2.3 million. The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. We have seven million people on probation and parole.”
What is statistics?
A comparison using “like” or “as” is called this rhetorical device.
What is a simile?
The three rhetorical appeals
What is ethos, pathos, and logos?
Bryan Stevenson says that “each of us is more than” this.
What is the worst thing we’ve ever done?
The setting for most of Chapter 1 is this southern state
What is Alabama?
"The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?"
What is Rhetorical Question?
This rhetorical device involves the deliberate exaggeration of a situation. ex: He ate everything in the house.
What is hyperbole?
When you make the audience feel inspired or hopeful
What is pathos?
Stevenson says the United States has this distinction in the world.
What is being the most incarcerated country in the world?
This organization was founded by Bryan Stevenson to help people who were wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced.
What is the Equal Justice Initiative?
“My state of Alabama, like a number of states, actually permanently disenfranchises you if you have a criminal conviction.”
What is a fact?
“Trying to solve this problem without teamwork is similar to trying to win a basketball game with only one player.” This sentence is an example of this rhetorical device.
What is an analogy?
One of the many reasons to not use AI is each 100-word AI prompt uses roughly one bottle of water.
What is logos?
This rhetorical appeal is used when Stevenson shares emotional stories about children and prisoners.
What is pathos?
This witness changes his story and falsely testifies against Walter McMillian.
Who is Ralph Myers?
“And I remember, when I was about eight or nine years old, waking up one morning, going into the living room, and all of my cousins were running around. And my grandmother was sitting across the room staring at me. And at first I thought we were playing a game. And I would look at her and I'd smile, but she was very serious. And after about 15 or 20 minutes of this, she got up and she came across the room and she took me by the hand and she said, "Come on, Bryan. You and I are going to have a talk." And I remember this just like it happened yesterday…”
This rhetorical device involves a direct or indirect reference to somthing which is commonly known. ex:'Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities'..
What is allusion?
Former basketball player Michael Jordan endorses Nike shoes
What is ethos?
Stevenson explains that many incarcerated children were sentenced to this punishment.
What is life imprisonment/life without parole?
The difference of treatment in the Ronda Morrison case and the Vicki Pittman case is ...
What is wealth/social class?
“It's not our problem. It's not our burden. It's not our struggle.”
What is repetition?
This rhetorical device is most clearly used: “The courtroom became a battlefield where truth struggled to survive.”
What is a metaphor?
When Stevenson discusses his experience as a lawyer defending prisoners
What is ethos?
One major theme of the TED Talk and Just Mercy is that justice should include this quality toward others.
What is mercy?
The Introduction explains that Bryan Stevenson believes this is the opposite of poverty—not wealth.
What is justice?