Rhetorical Appeals
An appeal to an audience's sense of logic.
What is logos?
A short personal story
What is an anecdote
A comparison between two unlike things for effect
What is a metaphor?
Some words connote strong emotions within the audience
What is loaded language
Sharing a list/sequence of words or ideas
What is listing?
An appeal to an audience's sense of emotions.
What is pathos?
A question asked to make a point rather than get an answer
What is a rhetorical question?
Giving human characteristics to something non-human
What is personification?
look for a word (or variations of a word) repeated in close proximity
What is repetition?
Ideas, people, or events that are paired to highlight their differences
What is contrasting?
An appeal to the audience's sense of credibility, trust, or values.
What is ethos
Citations of information such as data
What is data and statistics?
An exaggerated statement
What is a hyperbole?
Intentionally putting two contrasting words/ideas together for effect
What is juxtaposition?
Two ideas, people, or events that are coupled to show similarities
What is comparing?
An appeal to an audience's sense of time and urgency.
What is kairos?
A reference to something someone else said
What is citing?
Language that means the opposite
What is irony?
Using a repeated sentence structure
What is parallel structure?
Shows how one thing leads to another
What is cause and effect?
Writer, Exigence, Context, Audience, Message, Purpose
What is the Rhetorical Situation
A reference to history, literature, art, or the Bible
What is an allusion?
Visually descriptive or figurative language
What is imagery?
Varying the sentence structure throughout a text
What is syntactic variation?
A guess or hypothesis about a potential outcome
What is speculation?