Rhetorical Techniques

This is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

• Facts

• Extended Metaphor

• Diction

• Allusion

This is Information including data and statistics.

• Facts

• Allusions

• Anecdotes

• Repetition

This is word choice used; consider the connotation of specific words used to convey emotion

• Diction

• Allusion

• Repetition

• Anecdote

This is a short, interesting story that occurred to the speaker/writer

• Repetition

• Extended Metaphor

• Anecdote

• Facts

This is repeating a specific word or phrase to add emphasis to its meaning

• Extended metaphor

• Repetition

• Diction

• Facts

This is a comparison of two things without using or like that continues past one line or direct comparison

• Extended metaphor

• Diction

• Anecdote

• Allusion

In Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech "I Have a Dream," he says the title of his speech over and over in his speech. What is this an example of?

• Allusion

• Diction

• Repetition

• Extended metaphor

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Lincoln says this in his Gettysburg Address. What rhetorical technique is he using? Notice the underlined part of the sentence.

• Diction

• Extended metaphor

• Allusion

• Facts

Greta Thunberg stated , "We had, on January 1, 2018, 420 gigatons of carbon dioxide left to emit- to stay within the target-now we are already down to less than 360." What type of rhetorical technique is this?

• Extended metaphor

• Diction

• Allusion

• Facts

In Martin Luther King, Jr's speech "I have a Dream," he states, "One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity." What type of rhetorical technique is this?

• Facts

• Allusion

• Diction

• Extended metaphor