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Persuasive Appeals
Figurative Language
Definitions
Other Devices
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The three persuasive appeals
What is ethos, logos, and pathos
100
a quick comparison using like or as.
What is a SIMILE
100
Rhetorical Question
What is a question to make a point, not to get an answer.
100
BOOM, ZIP, POW
What is ONOMATOPOEIA
200
Uses facts, quotations, and statistics.
What is LOGOS
200
attribution of human qualities to inanimate things.
What is PERSONIFICATION
200
Allusion
What is a reference to a famou person, place, or event.
200
Tow truck breaking down.
What is IRONY
300
Includes emotionally loaded language.
What is PATHOS
300
A comparison that provides a picture to help understand an idea.
What is METAPHOR
300
Anecdote
What is a short story to make a general idea seem interesting.
300
Sally sells seashells by the seashore
What is ALLITERATION
400
Builds an author's credibility and trustworthiness.
What is ETHOS
400
"School is like a carnival of learning"
What is SIMILE
400

Tone

Tone is the writer's attitude or feeling about the subject of his text. It is a special kind of rhetorical strategy because tone is created by the writer's use of all of the other rhetorical strategies.

400
"Let us go then, you and I, While the evening is spread out against the sky, Like a patient etherized upon a table..." -T.S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
What is SIMILE
500
Give an example of each type of appeal.
What is *answers vary*
500
Make up a line of personification.
What is *answers vary*
500

Diction

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

500
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children. Martin Luther King. Jr, I Have a Dream
What is PARALLEL STRUCTURING