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Persuasive Appeals
Figurative Language
Definitions
Other Devices
Satire
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
Imitation of an author or his/her work (Weird Al)
What is Parody?
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 famous person, place, or event.
200
Tow truck breaking down.
What is IRONY
200
Use of words intended to belittle a person or idea
What is Ridicule
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
Distortion of an individual’s prominent features/characteristics
What is caricature?
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
Understatement (Ex: “There are few Starbucks in America”)
What is a litote?
500
Give an example of each type of appeal.
What is *answers vary*
500
The pen danced across the paper.
What is personification
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
More gentle type of satire that tries to make us laugh
What is Horation satire?