Rhetorical Devices for Persuasion

What is the definition of a rhetorical device?

• A classic technique in presentation and speech making. It helps tie the theme together, and it creates clarity for the listener. Additionally, we remember words and phrases more readily when they are packaged in threes.
• appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.
• A series of techniques used to influence a listener, reader, or audience to believe a certain claim
• A reference to religion, mythology, historical events, pop culture, literature, etc

What is the persuasive technique known as ethos?

• A reference to religion, mythology, historical events, pop culture, literature, etc
• ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.
  
• emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions
  
• appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason

What is pathos?

• appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.
• emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions
• ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.
• appeal to one's social group or community

What is alliteration?

• A reference to religion, mythology, historical events, pop culture, literature, etc.
• The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words. ____________ is fun to say and enjoyable to hear, and it’s used to call attention to certain words.
• A rhetorical technique in which the writer emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form.
• A classic technique in presentation and speech making. It helps tie the theme together, and it creates clarity for the listener. Additionally, we remember words and phrases more readily when they are packaged in threes.

What is the persausive technique known as logos?

• appeal using a company's visual symbol
• appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.
• ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.
• emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions

“I came, I saw, I conquered.” ...Julius Caesar
This quote's main rhetorical device in use is 

• parallelism
• alliteration
• repetition
• allusion

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” ...Eleanor Roosevelt
The main rhetorical device at use here is

• allusion.
• alliteration.
• repetition.
• parallel structure

“I’ve known rivers:I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.” ...Langston Hughes
Which technique is used prominently in the above line of Hughes' poem?

• parallelism
• allusion
• repetition
• allusion

short personal stories used to connect with the audience and add evidence or credibility to an argument.

the representation of something as greater than is actually the case and is used to grab the attention of the audience and emphasize certain points.