Rhetoric Vocab

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of rhetorical devices.

• anaphora

• ethos

• rhetoric

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A tool that helps an author or speaker achieve a particular purpose;usually persuasion

• advertising

• personification

• rhetorical triangle

• rhetorical devices

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

When words have the same sound at the beginning

• anaphora

• allusion

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When a writer or speaker refers to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.

(in other words, they reference something famous)

• rhetoric

• allusion

• alliteration

• advertising

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of clauses to emphasize

• anaphora

• ethos

• rhetorical appeals

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• personification

• rhetoric

• hyperbole

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

To give the qualities of a person to something that isn't human or that isn't even alive.

• personification

• rhetorical devices

• hyperbole

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

To describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public in order to promote sales or attendance

• rhetorical devices

• advertising

• allusion

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Who is Aristotle?

• A Greek scientist and philosopher that wrote the book on "Advertising"

• A Greek scientist and philosopher that wrote the book on "figurative language"

• A Greek scientist and philosopher that wrote the book on "Rhetoric"

• A Greek scientist and philosopher that wrote the book on "Figurative Language"

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Aristotle discovered that there are three ways to appeal to (attract/interest) people:

• ethically, comically, and slowly

• logically, emotionally, and ethically

• patiently, logically, and kindly

• financially, emotionally, and quickly

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5