To enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond
normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults
can be seen.
What is exaggeration?
100
Entertain, inform, shock, persuade, educate, call to action
What is author's purpose?
100
An author's choice of words to convey a tone or effect
What is diction?
100
A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness
What is satire?
100
Logos, Pathos, and Ethos
What are rhetorical appeals?
200
"Phone out of service? Give us a call."
What is irony?
200
The three elements of Aristotle's rhetorical triangle
What is speaker, audience, and argument?
200
Pretty ugly, act naturally, awfully good
What is oxymoron?
200
To minimize the issue to make people realize its importance
What is understatement?
200
Appealing to reasoning, facts, research
What is logos?
300
To be effective, all satire must have this.
What is satirical target?
300
Rhetoric
What is the art of persuasion?
300
The sun danced across the sky
What is personification?
300
Sneering, jesting, or mocking a person, situation or thing
What is sarcasm?
300
MLK's syntactical structure of "I have a dream...." is an example of this.
What is anaphora?
400
A literary work that ridicules its subject through the use of techniques such as exaggeration, reversal, incongruity, and/or parody in order to make a comment or criticism about it
What is satire?
400
DIDLS
What is diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax?
400
"All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players." -William Shakespeare
What is metaphor?
400
The title of Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is an example.
What is understatement?
400
Pathos
What is appealing to one's emotions or feelings?
500
4 Common satirical strategies
What is exaggeration, irony, understatement, sarcasm, naive speaker, hyperbole, juxtaposition (4 needed for full points).
500
Rhetorical situation
What is the context (historical, speech, advertisement) for the speaker and forthcoming argument? Also known as exigency.
500
Imagery
What is language which appeals to the five sense?
500
wildly extravagant exaggeration; overstatement
What is hyperbole?
500
What are 5 rhetorical strategies Swift used in "A Modest Proposal?"
What is (answer determined by Ms. Stevenson). :)
Should include - tone, imagery, satire, irony, understatement, diction/details