Rhetorical Appeal Definitions
An appeal that relies on an audience's emotions.
What is Pathos?
A reference to an important person, place, or an event.
What is ALLUSION?
Jerry's mind wandered during class
Like a balloon floating up in the air.
What is SIMILE?
A car commercial depicts a teary-eyed parent saying goodbye to their child as they go off to college, sad but assured that they're sending their child away in a reliable, safe car.
What is PATHOS?
Katy Perry sings, "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag".
What is RHETORICAL QUESTION?
An appeal that relies on reason and logic.
What is Logos?
The repeating of a particular sound or phrase.
What is REPETITION?
Never stop looking at all the miracles we have had.
Never stop loving the ones you hold dear.
Never stop giving, and don’t give into the fear.
What is REPETITION?
A commercial shows statistics about how many people die per year from drunk driving.
What is LOGOS?
Sia sings, "You shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium".
What is METAPHOR?
A specific strategy that makes the argument of a text seem attractive/interesting so the audience will "buy in" to it.
What is Persuade/Persuasion?
An extreme exaggeration but not meant literally.
What is HYPERBOLE?
I explained to my parents about a trillion times that I finished my homework.
What is HYPERBOLE?
Edison Mendez endorses Nike in an advertisement.
What is ETHOS?
Travie McCoy sings, "My heart's a stereo".
What is Metaphor?
An appeal that relies on the credibility or one's character.
What is Ethos?
Giving HUMAN traits to something that is NOT human.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
The blanket wrapped its arms around me.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
A boyfriend begs his girlfriend to stay with him, claiming "If you really love me, you'll give me time to change my ways."
What is PATHOS?
Nicki Minaj sings, "boy you got my heart beatin' like a drum and it's comin' your way".
What is Simile?
When people use language effectively so as to persuade/influence their audience.
What is Rhetoric?
A comparison between two things using like or as.
What is SIMILE?
The young writer was rightly called the Shakespeare of modern times.
What is ALLUSION?
The author of an article about healthy eating describes their background in nutrition.
What is ETHOS?
Taylor Swift's sings, 'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter/And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet"
What is ALLUSION?