Rhetorical Strategies

What is connotation? 

• a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept 
• the literal meaning of a word
• a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated
• all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Speaking of a nonhuman thing as if it has human feelings or actions (Ex. The wind moaned.)

• hyperbole
• idiom
• personification
• simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The "unsinkable" ship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage.

• Irony
• Allusion
• Oxymoron
• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which rhetorical device uses a comparison to something very different to help someone understand a larger idea?

• parallelism
• repetition
• restatement
• analogy

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The "Why" of an article/film/speech

• author's tone

• author's purpose

• author's attitude

• author's opinion

There are four types of rhetorical appeals

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

An appeal to people's conscience, or morals

• logos

• ethos

• moros

• pathos

Statistical data is normally used in this appeal

• pathos

• ethos

• porthos

• logos

An ad campaign that includes a doctor is using

• ethos

• bandwagon

• logos

• pathos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A commercial designed to tug at our heartstrings is using

• logos

• pathos

• pothas

• ethos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5