Useful Rhetorical Devices

Useful Rhetorical Devices

First, a recap:

Multiple Select

What might persuasion entail? (Check all that apply.)

• Making someone believe what you want them to believe.

• Making someone do what you want them to do.

• Preventing someone from doing something that you don't want them to do.

• Preventing someone from believing what you don't want them to believe.

Multiple Choice

What is the connection between Aristotle and rhetoric?

• Aristotle identified ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos as types of persuasion.

• Aristotle was the inventor of rhetoric.

• Aristotle identified ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos as challenges of persuasion.

• Aristotle dedicated his life to persuading others that rhetoric was harmful.

Multiple Choice

Kairos is an appeal to...

• emotion

• timeliness

• logic

• trustworthiness

​Rhetorical devices

• ​Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.

• ​Ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos = big categories

• ​Rhetorical devices = word-tools 😏 used to persuade. The same device can belong to different AA categories.

  • ​anecdote: short story

  • ​simile: compare w/ like or as

  • ​metaphor: compare w/o

  • ​anaphora: repetition @ beginning of successive phrases / sentences

  • ​rhetorical Q: no A is expected

Multiple Select

Which of the following are similes?

• My single story of Fide was like trying to paint a realistic portrait with only one color.

• She shouted "NO!" as stubbornly as a child in bed on the first day back to school.

• Single stories are thorns pressed into the skin of those they stereotype.

• She howled out her grievances, clawing wildly at the opponent's lawyer.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is most likely a rhetorical question?

• Where do you keep the pencil sharpener?

• What's the equivalent of Grab delivery in India?

• How does one calculate the square root of pi?

• How can we call ourselves free when we are still enslaved?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best example of disgusted diction?

• slender

• slim

• scrawny

• thin

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best shows anaphora?

• We will fight on the beaches. We will fight on the hills. We will fight in the streets.

• This government is of the people, for the people, by the people.

• Patience, my friend. Waiting is the name of the game.

• The rotund superintendent sat beside the K4 child, laying a massive hand on her tiny shoulder.

Multiple Select

An anecdote can be used as an appeal to:

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• kairos

​Spot the rhetorical devices. There will be more than we've discussed today.

​Spot the rhetorical devices:

​defintion

exemplification: giving examples (or, in this case, non-examples)

​anaphora: repetition of word/s near the beginning of a sentence

​humor

​alliteration: repetition of first consonant sound. P! P! = scoffing

​rhetorical question

​short "sentence" -> important point!

Poll

Which rhetorical device will you add to your argument to make it more persuasive? (Pick one!)

• anecdote

• metaphor / simile

• exemplification

• rhetorical question

• anaphora / repetition