Rhetoric 2

Rhetoric is the art of...

• using language as a means to persuade

• preventing intellectual property theft

• writing 5 paragraph essays

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

CCSS.W.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.1A

Logos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions and interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.1A

Pathos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions or interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

Ethos is...

• what the writer does to establish credibility

• appeals to the emotions or interests of the readers

• appeals to logic

Tags

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

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.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Paradox is...

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

• a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection or thought contains some degree of truth or validity.

• a self-contradictory combination of words or smaller verbal units.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Antimetabole

• Uses reverse grammatical order in successive clauses

• Deliberate use of many conjunctions

• A play on words

• Deliberate use of understatement

Pick which rhetoric device: "You stood up for America, now America must stand up for you"

• Alliteration

• Antimetabole

• Anaphora

• Anastrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

Personification

• Figure of speech in which objects and animals have human qualities

• Figure of speech in which a part represents the whole object or idea.

• A play on words, creating INTENSE double meanings

• The idea that people don't have souls

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4