Rhetorical Devices
The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
What is alliteration?
The rhetorical device that separates what is being defined into separate groups or classes.
What is classification?
Action words.
What is a verb?
Freedom of Speech
What is the 1st Amendment?
The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
What is evidence?
Extravagant exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
The rhetorical device that negates, or excludes, something that is not part of a definition. It helps describe that definition by stating a limitation to its meaning.
What is negation?
Modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
Protection from an unlawful search.
What is the 4th Amendment?
R.A.C.E
What is Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain?
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them.
What is a metaphor?
The rhetorical device that uses examples to add weight to a concept. The use of examples evokes images that help the reader connect to the idea being defined.
What is exemplification?
Modifies a verb.
What is an adverb?
No cruel or unusual punishments.
What is the 8th amendment?
clearly identifies the topic being discussed, includes the points discussed in the paper, and is written for a specific audience.
What is a thesis statement?
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The rhetorical device that explains facets of a definition in terms of their purpose
What is function?
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
What is syntax?
No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury.
What is the 5th amendment?
A type of writing defined as story writing.
What is narrative writing?
A combination of contradictory or incongruous words.
What is an oxymoron?
Identify the strategy: “And yet neither isegoria nor parrhesia identified the reasoned speech and arguments of logos as uniquely deserving of equal liberty or license.”
What is negation?
A word formed from a verb and used as an adjective.
What is participle?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
What is the 10th amendment?
The author of "The Two Clashing meanings of "Free Speech"."
Who is Teresa M. Bejan?