Rhetorical Devices
"As a veterinarian..."
What is ethos?
"Busy as a bee"
What is a simile?
"Bug, cloud, cache, API"
What is jargon?
“I need to go to the store, I need to clean the house, and I need to rest.”
What is anaphora?
"A clinical trial shows this medicine reduces recovery time by 50%"
"Achilles' heel"
What is allusion?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
What is alliteration?
"Cap, rizz, sus, ghost"
What is slang?
"All's fair in love and war"
What is juxtaposition?
"Time is a theif"
What is a metaphor?
"A fire station burning down to the ground"
What is irony?
"The alarm clock shouted at me to wake up"
What is personification?
"everyone, folks, y'all, you lot"
What is inclusive language?
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
What is antithesis?
"Would you care to explain the reasoning behind your decision to leave the gathering early?" vs "Why'd you leave the party so soon?"
What is diction?
"If we do not leave this place right now, we will be in grave danger"
What is pathos?
"The need for speed"
What is assonance?
"According to the data presented by the Environmental Protection Agency, carbon emissions have dropped by 10%."
What is tone?
"Mary likes hiking, swimming, and bicycling"
What is parallelism?
"time after time"
What is repetition?
"One time, I didn't study before big test and I didn't pass. Now I always study."
What is an anecdote?
"The crimson sun sank below the horizon, casting long shadows across the dusty floor"
What is imagery?
"Chased the mouse the cat"
What is syntax?
"Life is like a box of chocolates--you never know what you're going to get."
What is analogy?
The teach said, "All of my students know rhetorical devices."
What is testimony?