Rhetorical Devices

*Appeals

• The author has a specific reason or purpose for writing the text.

• Style refers to the author’s choice of words, or diction, in a text.

• In persuasive passages, there are three main types that a writer may use to strengthen his or her argument.

• To modify the perspectives of others.

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*Author's Purpose

• A particular attitude or way of considering a matter.

• An incorrect, argument.

• Language choices and techniques that writers use to communicate perspective.

• The author has a specific reason for writing the text.

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* Syllogism

• Is formed by two statements and a conclusion.

• Techniques that writers use to communicate perspective and to modify the perspectives of others.

• Diction, in a selected text.

• The individual writing style of an author, a combination of idiotypical usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text

*Fallacious Reasoning

• The author's own attitude toward the subject.

• Reasoning makes an invalid, or incorrect, argument.

• Language choices and techniques that writers use to communicate

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*Style

• Refers to the author’s choice of words, or diction, in a text.

• The emotion the author wanted the readers to feel while reading about the subject.

• The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named the use of onomatopoeia for rhetorical effect.

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*Exigence

• A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

• A writer may use to strengthen his or her argument.

• An issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak.

*Allegory

• A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

• The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

• Consists of language choices and techniques that writers use to communicate perspective and to modify the perspectives of others.

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*Juxtaposition

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.

• The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

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*Alliteration

• Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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*Anaphora

• The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect

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