Rhetorical Appeals and Rhetorical Devices - ELA III

Rhetorical Question

A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected or to provoke thought, such as "How many times do I have to tell you not to yell in the house?" or "How much longer will this injustice continue?"

Allusion

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event, such as "This place is like a Garden of Eden."

Parallelism

A rhetorical device in which the same grammatical structure is used within a sentence or paragraph to show that two or more ideas have equal importance

argument

A statement which is presented and supported by evidence.

What rhetorical appeal is the following passage an example of? The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion recommends that people ages 6-17 have 60 minutes of physical activity a day.

Ethos

appeals

In rhetoric, the means of persuasion in an argument. According to Aristotle, there are three fundamental appeals to convince a person: reason (logos), ethics (ethos), and emotion (pathos).

What rhetorical appeal is the following passage an example of? Aside from promoting healthy physical habits, there are mental and emotional benefits to exercise.

Logos

What rhetorical appeal is the following passage an example of? In the spring, you can see any number of kids beaming proudly with their medal for physical fitness and bounding around the halls waiting to continue playing after school.

Pathos

Repetition

Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

devices

Techniques that an author or speaker uses to influence or persuade an audience

Pathos

appealing to emotions of the audience, like happiness, sadness, nostalgia, hope...

An appeal to ______________ can be persuasive because it conveys the credibility of the speaker.

ethos

Restatement

expressing the same ideas using different words

An appeal to________________ can be effective because it sends a message to the audience's brain.

logos

An appeal to _______________ can be convincing because it sends a message to the audience's heart.

pathos

Logos

the appeal that shows reason, or that something makes sense and that it is logical.

Ethos

the credibility or ethical character of a speaker

credibility

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

claim

the writer's position on an issue or problem

Antithesis

words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins".