Rhetoric & Persuasive Techniques

Logos

• Logical appeal such as facts and statistics

• Emotional appeal that tugs at the heart strings

• Ethical appeal or your character/credibility

• Leggo my Eggo

Ethos

• Logical appeal such as facts and statistics

• Emotional appeal that tugs at the heart strings

• Ethical appeal or your character/credibility

• A potion to restore MP

Pathos

• Logical appeal such as facts and statistics

• Appeals to an emotional response

• Ethical appeal or your character/credibility

• A territory in Zelda

Rhetorical Question

• a questions to which no answer is expected

• a knock knock joke

• a question meant to appeal to the reader's emotions

• a question meant to make the audience feel angry

Antithesis

• a really bad thesis statement

• expresses contrasting ideas in parallel (same or similar) sentence structures

• a statement that expresses opposite ideas in rhyming patter

• a phrase meant to make the audience cry

Repetition

• when the speaker or author uses the same word twice

• when the author repeats the title at the end of the speech

• the purposeful recurrence of words, phrases, or lines

• having to read the same thing over and over and over again with no purpose

Parallelism

• repeating the same thing over and over again

• using the same word twice in the same sentence

• a phrase meant to make the audience cry

• a type of repetition in which words or phrases in parallel (same or similar) form connect ideas

Allusion

• a style of writing meant to make the audience angry

• references to events, figures, or phrases from another source, most often the Bible

• a magic trick where the magician makes himself disappear

• a reference to Mrs. Copple's English class

Simile

• comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• direct comparison stating one thing is another

• an allusion to the Bible

• a super happy faced grin

Metaphor

• comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• direct comparison stating one thing is another

• an allusion to the Bible

• a super happy faced grin