Rhetorical Strategies (or Devices)

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

• anaphora

• rhetorical question

• rhetoric

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Logos

• using clear and concise terms; using logic and reason

• uses language that draws emotions such as pity or anger

• uses a celebrity to endorse a product

• strategy that uses comparisons to make a point

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

the repeating of words, phrases, or clauses for emphasis... "I have a dream..."

• Parallelism

• Anaphora

• alliteration

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

giving human qualities to something that is inanimate or an animal..."The sun smiles at me in the morning..."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

a rhetorical device used to get people to stop thinking and to start feeling

• pathos

• logos

• ethos

• paralleism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a reference in one piece of writing to another famous piece of literature, historical, or famous event

• alliteration

• allusion

• anaphora

• extended metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

This strategy intentionally exaggerates conditions for effect.

• irony

• idiom

• allusion

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

This strategy uses the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences

• anaphora

• alliteration

• repetition

• none of these

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This strategy is used when trying to persuade an audience that a character is a trustworthy person.

• pathos

• logos

• rhetoric

• ethos

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

This strategy make a comparison between two different things ... uses the words "like" or "as" to make the comparison

• simile

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D