Ch. 8: Rhetoric & Style Elements

appealing to reason and logic

• pathos

• ethos

• style

• logos

when an author has credibility that comes from their expertise and experience

• pathos

• ethos

• persuasion

• logos

the writer's manner of expression (how they use language)

• tone

• theme

• style

when the style reveals the attitude, mood, or sentiment of a work

• theme

• tone

• irony

• pathos

when figurative language is used to describe sensory detail

• hyperbole

• understatement

• imagery

• simile

"If you use too many rhetorical questions in your writing, the teacher will kill you" is - we hope- an example of . . .

• simile

• imagery

• hyperbole

• metonymy

After coming to a screeching halt in the middle of the food court, my car still steaming and dented, kids running for their lives, it would be a(n) _____________ to say I failed my driver's test.

• hyperbole

• understatement

• simile

• metaphor

"I have voyaged on this ship, I have avoided the cabin; I have remained on deck, battered by wind and rain, but able to see moonlight on the water..." [but we know this passage isn't just about sailing]

• extended metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

"I have voyaged on this ship, I have avoided the cabin; I have remained on deck, battered by wind and rain, but able to see moonlight on the water..." [but we know this passage isn't just about sailing], so the 'ship,' 'cabin,' and 'moonlight' may all be called ___________

• metaphors

• similes

• symbols

• hyperboles

He had been wrestling with Senioritis all year.

• personification

• anthropomorphism