Rhetorical Devices 1
A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature
Anecdote
A person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast
Foil
The sad puppy commercial with Sarah McLaughlin music playing in the background. Makes you feel sorry for all those homeless puppies.
What is Pathos?
a question that isn’t intended to be answered. The point of asking the question is to make an audience think or to cause an emotional reaction.
rhetorical question
using grammatically similar phrases or sentences together.
Example: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
parallelism
A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief.
Aphorism
A satirical imitation of a work of art for purpose of ridiculing its style or subject.
Parody
DAILY DOUBLE:
FOR 1000 Points, COME UP WITH A SITUATION. CHALLENGE ALL TEAMS TO COME UP WITH AN EXAMPLE OF ETHOS, PATHOS, OR LOGOS. Your favorite team also gains 1000 points.
PLAYERS CHOICE
a nickname or descriptive term used to refer to someone.
epithet
an instance of informal language or a local expression
colloquialism
A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, as in "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence."
Oxymoron
A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true.
Paradox
McDonalds commercial where famous singers all are sitting around and singing, "I'm loving it" and they are all skinny and laughing and having a great time.
PATHOS
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words. Example: I came, I saw, I conquered. Example: She and Lee see the bees in the tree.
Assonance
An overstatement characterized by exaggerated language
Hyperbole
—A figure of speech which makes brief, even casual reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object to create a resonance in the reader
Allusion
A sudden or intuitive insight or perception into the reality or essential meaning of
something usually brought on by a simple or common occurrence or experience
Epiphany
The veterinarian says that a german shepard will be a perfect match with our active lifestyle!
Sensory details in a work; the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object. Imagery involves any or all of the five senses
Imagery
Desire to return in thought or fact to a former time
Nostalgia
A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness
Satire
A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes, such as buzz or hiss.
Onomatopoeia
Make an argument for a four day school week using Pathos and Logos on your markerboard
TBD
the act of purposefully using harsh sounds.
Example: The gnashing of teeth and screeching of bats kept me awake.
cacophony
a long comparison of two things while proving a point: Example: In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo says "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet", showing that he doesn't care about his family's name or rivalry when it comes to love.
Analogy