3 Elements of Argument/Persuasive Appeals
Figurative Language
Definitions
Other Devices
DHS Figurative Language
100
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
100

The avian creature symbolizes Desoto Schools

What is the eagle?

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
200

"Good morning, good morning, good morning" is said by whom and what rhetorical device is used?

Who is Mr. Harris and what is repetition?

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
300

"Sometimes it’s not what you expect, and it’s not what you want, but it’s exactly what you need."~Trent Shelton 

This is an example of which rhetorical device?

What is parallelism?

400
Builds an author's credibility and trustworthiness.
What is ETHOS
400
"School is like a carnival of learning"
What is SIMILE
400
Negative Definition
What is describing what something is not.
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
400

"Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last." ~ MLK,Jr. 

This is an example of which  of the three elements of arguments

What is pathos? (an appeal to emotions)

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
Antithesis
What is contrasting an idea and its opposite.
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
500

"Criticism is something  we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." ~ Aristotle

Which of the three elements of argument is this quote?

What is logos? (appeal to logic)