Rhetorical Devices#1
Illegal Immigrant vs. Anchor Baby
What are Loaded Words?
Shells were to ancient culture as dollar bills are to modern culture.
What is an Analogy?
The percentage of homeowners dropped by almost 10% last year.
What is logos?
What is: "What is life?"
What is a Rhetorical Question?
An appeal to logic
What is logos?
An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience usually expressed through word choice.
What is tone?
Caitlyn Clark wears those sneakers, so they must be good.
What is ethos?
Justice is blind
What is Personification?
An appeal to emotion
What is pathos?
The evil healthcare workers administer poisonous medicine and try to make life difficult for everyone, and want people to be sick so they can benefit.
What are loaded words?
Using artful language effectively to please or persuade.
What is Rhetoric?
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air.
What is Anaphora?
When the enemy struck on that June day of 1950, what did America do? It did what it always has done in all its times of peril. It appealed to the heroism of its youth.
What is Hypophora?
Time is a thief
What is Metaphor?
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe.
What is a call to action?
"War is peace." "Freedom is slavery." "Ignorance is strength."
What is metaphor?
Better late than never.
What is Juxtaposition?
He felt like Ponyboy felt in The Outsiders, completely alone.
What is an Allusion?
If prices continue to increase, many children would be living on the street.
What is Pathos ?
“It’s a bit warm”- When it is 110 degrees outside.
What is Understatement?