Rhetorical Devices and Fallacies

To cause someone to do something through reason or argument; or to cause someone to believe something.

• argument
• persuade
• refute
• rebute

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.W.6.1A

Any stylistic device or resource of language that an author or speaker uses to help persuade or make a desired impact on his/her audience.

• refute
• persuade
• convince
• rhetorical device

Tags

CCSS.SL.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.6

Debate and advertising are forms of: 

• fallacies 
• arguments 
• persuasion
• rebuttals 

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.SL.6.3

CCSS.W.6.1A

repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of words

• alliteration
• anaphora
• fallacies 
• rebuttals 

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.5A

a brief indirect reference ( to a person, event, object, time period, literary work)

• allusion
• reason
• persuasive reasoning
• purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.5A

a questions that is not expected to be answered, used for rhetorical effect or to emphasize an obvious point

• position
• premise
• rhetorical question
• opposite argument

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

a short statement that reveals a general truth

• persuade
• argue
• fallacy
• aphorism

a mild or pleasant word of phrase that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensize

• euphemism
• rebuttal
• debate
• disclaim

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.L.6.4A

the repetition of words at the end of a line

• winning argument
• epistrophe
• chocolate cake 
• advertisement

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure

• parallelism 
• argument claims
• controlling idea
• cake ingredients

Tags

CCSS.W.6.4