Figurative Language/Rhetoric

Purpose is...

• a gap, a need, a lack, something that needs doing. The cause for an author to write.

• a reader or group of readers capable of acting on this exigence

• what the author intends for the reader(s) to do while and after they read the text.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Logos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions and interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Pathos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions or interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Ethos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions or interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A device used to produce figurative language

• cell phone

• essay template

• figure of speech

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

Hyperbole is...

• the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant.

• a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

• breaking off discourse to address some absent, person, or thing, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent character.

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

Metaphor is...

• a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection or thought contains some degree of truth or validity.

• a self-contradictory combination of words or smaller verbal units.

• a figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things.

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

Simile is...

• a comparison of two things using like, as, or if.

• a figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things.

• a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

giving human qualities to an inanimate object...

• parallelism

• concrete

• audience contact

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

restating words and phrases for emphasis...

• climax ordering

• alliteration

• parallelism

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4