Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Rhetoric and other Literary Devices

Rhetoric is the art of...

• using language as a means to persuade

• preventing intellectual property theft

• writing 5 paragraph essays

Rhetorical analysis is the examination of...

• testing procedures for the AP exam

• written ​texts to determine how the ​author shaped the content ​in order to achieve an ​identifiable purpose for a given audience

• architecture and history of the Rostra in Rome

Audience is...

• a reader or group of readers capable of acting on this exigence

• what the author intends for the reader(s) to do while and after they read the text

• a gap, a need, a lack, something that needs doing. The cause for an author to write.

Purpose is...

• a gap, a need, a lack, something that needs doing. The cause for an author to write.

• a reader or group of readers capable of acting on this exigence

• what the author intends for the reader(s) to do while and after they read the text.

Logos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions and interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Pathos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions or interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Ethos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions or interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Hyperbole is...

• the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant.

• a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

• breaking off discourse to address some absent, person, or thing, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent character.

Simile is...

• a comparison of two things using like, as, or if.

• a figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things.

• a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.

Diction is...

• the arrangement of words by a speaker/writer

• the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions, usually using terms related to the 5 senses

• refers to the speaker/writer’s word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness