Rhetorical Devices and Rhetorical Appeal

What are techniques used in language in order to convey a point or influence an audience?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Rhetoric

Rhetorical Appeal

persuading through the character and credibility of the author (ethical)

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Rhetorical Appeal

persuading by using logic and reasoning (logic)

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

Rhetorical Appeal

persuading by appealing to the audience's emotion (emotional)

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Rhetorical Device

the combination of two words of opposite meaning for dramatic, comedic, or provocative effect

• juxtaposition

• oxymoron

• euphemism

• allusion

Rhetorical Device

a brief reference to a famous person or event--often from literature, mythology, history, or the Bible

• allusion

• understatement

• euphemism

• juxtaposition

Rhetorical Device

when someone says something that says less than what they actually mean (they are downplaying)

• metaphor

• allusion

• juxtaposition

• understatement

Rhetorical Device

several parts of a sentence or several senteces expressed in similar grammatical form to show that the ideas are equal in importance--adds rhythm, balance, and emphasis to ideas.

• rhetorical question

• verbal irony

• parallelism

• repetition

Rhetorical Device

a mild or pleasant term used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one

• hyperbole

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• euphemism

Rhetorical Device

putting two contrasting elements together that are so unlike that the effect is surprising, witty, or even startling

• anaphora

• juxtaposition

• oxymoron

• anaphora