Rhetorical Devices

The art of persuasion

• rhetoric

• voice

• satire

• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

an appeal that attempts to convey the speaker's credibility.

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• context

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

an appeal that evokes a cognitive and rational response about the subject using reason, facts, and evidence.

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• context

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

an appeal that evokes a feeling-based response in the audience.

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• context

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a figure of speech in which a direct comparison is made between two things essentially unlike.

• simile

• motif

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things, usually linked by a "like" or "as".

• pun

• metaphor

• aphorism

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• euphemism

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms are linked

• jargon

• oxymoron

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

a figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation sound less important or serious than it is.

• hyperbole

• understatement

• euphemism

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

an unexplained reference to a person, place, event, book, myth, or work of art.

• allusion

• imagery

• metaphor

• illusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4