Rhetorical Techniques and MLK

Several parts of a sentence or several sentences expressed in similar grammatical form to show that the ideas are equal in importance. It can add balance, rhythm, and emphasis of ideas.

Example: "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the succes of liberty."

Repetition at the beginning of a line. Example: "We demand truth. We demand justice. We demand equality."

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• epistrophe

• anaphora

What is a question posed for effect, not requiring an answer? Example: "How long shall we look the other way while our fellow human beings suffer?"

Match the following

• through character/credibility of author

• pathos

• appealing to an audience's emotions

• ethos

• persuading by logic and reasoning

• logos

Match the following

• as a doctor, I am qualified to say...

• ethos

• no price is too high for peace of mind

• pathos

• the data clearly shows we profited

• logos

A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from history, music, or another work of literature.

• anaphora

• foreshadowing

• analogy

• allusion

Repetition of successive lines in separate sentences of phrases in a text.

• aphorism

• anecdote

• repetition

• anaphora

A reflection of a writer's or a speaker's attitude toward the subject matter.

• tone

• diction

• vernacular

• examples

The use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form.

• anaphora

• analogy

• repetition

• parallelism

A question that is asked without expecting an answer.

• examples/facts/statistics

• persuasion

• rhetorical question

• allusion