Rhetorical Techniques

A question where an answer is not expected from the reader/audience

• Rhetorical question

• Listing

• Alliteration

• Juxtaposition

A deliberate choice of words to influence or to elicit emotion

• Emotive language

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

• Hypophora

A word or expression is repeated at the beginning of a number of sentences, clauses, or phrases

• Emotive language

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

• Hypophora

A word or expression is repeated at the end of a number of sentences, clauses, or phrases

• Emotive language

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

• Hypophora

What is logos?

• Appeals using emotion

• Appeals using facts and logic

• Appeals using trust and crediblity

What is ethos

• Appeals using crediblity, trust

• Appeals using logic or facts

• Appeal to emotion

• A Greek word meaning emotional

Doctors all over the world recommend this type of treatment.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

This method of persuasion requires a credible authority to convince the audience.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Persuades using a person's credibility

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

When a writer raises a question, and then immediately provides an answer to that question

• Emotive language

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

• Hypophora