Figurative Language
This rhetorical device involves two things being compared using "like" or "as." Ex. "Sophie's silver hair was like starlight."
What is a simile?
This device involves deliberately using the same word or phrase over and over.
What is repetition?
This language is the origin of the terms we use to identify rhetorical appeals.
What is Greek?
The speech was delivered in front of this monument on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
The three main purposes authors may have for writing.
What is "to entertain, persuade, and inform?"
This rhetorical device involves two things being compared using "is" or a direct comparison. Ex. "Life is but a dream."
What is a metaphor?
A device where phrases or sentences sound similar to each other, like mirror images.
What is parallelism?
An appeal to emotion or attempt to inspire certain feelings in an audience. Ex. "In the Arms of the Angels" playing in the background of ASPCA commercials over pictures of crying abandoned animals
What is pathos?
Dr. King alludes to this famous speech by opening with the line, "Five score years ago."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The meaning of the Latin root "-cred-", used in credit, creed, and incredible.
What is "to trust/believe"?
This rhetorical device is a kind of metaphor where one experience is compared to another. Ex. "Getting him to talk about his feelings is like pulling teeth."
What is an analogy?
This strategy involves using strong, vivid, emotional descriptions in order to resonate with the audience.
What is charged language?
An appeal to logic and reason, sometimes using science, statistics, or simple common sense. Ex. "9 out of 10 dentists recommend our brand of toothpaste"
What is logos?
Using an analogy of going to the bank to cash a check and being refused the money owed, Dr. King describes the experience of living under this practice.
What is segregation/discrimination?
These various formats for texts and paragraphs include compare/contrast, chronological, and problem/solution.
What are organizational structures/text structures?
This rhetorical device involves a reference to something which is commonly well-known. Ex: "She was no Scrooge, but she rarely purchased anything except necessities."
What is an allusion?
A strategy where you explain the same main idea in different ways for clarity and emphasis.
What is restatement?
An appeal to the audience's character/values, or the use of a famous/authoritative figure to give credibility to the argument. Ex. Pete Davidson doing ads for Taco Bell
What is ethos?
The quote "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character", contains an example of this rhetorical device.
What is parallelism?
The statement that expresses the main idea of a text.
What is the thesis?
This refers to a question asked to make you think and not actually requiring an answer. Ex. "What do you think you're doing, coming back so late?"
What is a rhetorical question?
These TWO rhetorical strategies often go together. Ex. "One hundred years later..." section of "I Have a Dream" speech
What are repetition and parallelism?
The ancient Greek philosopher who came up with the three categories of rhetorical appeals.
Who is Aristotle?
The ending of the speech utilizes three different rhetorical devices at once (repetition, allusion, and parallelism) indicated by this key phrase.
What is "Let freedom ring"?
The meaning of the Latin root "-temp-", used in tempo, contemporary, and extemporaneous.
What is "time"?