Rhetorical Devices
Understatement
"''tis a scratch" -Black Night arm is cut off
Restatement
"...we can't dedicate - we can't consecrate - we can't hallow - this ground..." -Abraham Lincoln
Antithesis
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." -Muhammad Ali
Charged words
"For my own part I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom and slavery" -Patrick Henry
Restatement
"Our prices can't be bad. No one undersells us."
Parallelism
"So this country OF THE people, BY THE people, FOR THE people." -Lincoln
Allusion
"The teams competed in a David and Gollath struggle"
Apostrophe
"The. Come sweet death and rid me of this grief" -Christopher Malowe
Repetition Anaphora
"Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity. Yes we can heal this nation. Yes we can repair this world. Yes we can." -Barack Obama
Exclamation
"as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry
Rhetorical question
Benjamin Franklin - "From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected?"
Ethos
Character/Credibility
Simile
Comparison using like or as
Pathos
Emotion
Antithesis
Many are called but few are chosen
Pathos
Product: Michelin Tires POV: a baby whose life is at risk of death if he is riding in a car without safe tires
Ethos
Product: Milk Personality: David Beckham, soccer phenomenon. "Body by Milk" David Beckham drinks three glasses of milk a day and it does a body good
Logos
Product: snickers candy Use: a snickers bar has 280 calories and 30 grams of sugar
Anaphora
Winston Churchill - "WE SHALL GO on to the end, WE SHALL FIGHT in France, WE SHALLE FIGHT on the seas and oceans."
Rhetorical Question
a questions which the answer is obvious or that the speaker does not expect the listener to answer
Anaphora
a rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Exclmation
an emotional statement often indicated in texts by an exclamation mark
Pathos
appeals to the audiences emotional and imagination Causes the audience to identify the writer/speakers POV
Logos
argument based on fact evidence and reason
Pathos
argument based on feelings
Parallelism
convincing mom to take me to the game is easy but convincing dad is difficult
Ethos
driven based on character of the speaker the reputation of the author Refers to the trustworthiness of credibility of the writer/speaker
Antithesis
opposing ideas a sentence should have contradicting words positioned in a balanced way in a phrase or a clause use of contrasting concepts words
Ethos
person being related to the subject of the question speaker is knowledgeable on the topic
Logos
persuading by the use of reasoning or logic uses facts and statistics to help support the argument
Logos
reasoning/logic
Allusion
reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work art work, etc you not only associate yourself with the ideas of the original text but also crease a bond with the audience by evoking shared knowledge
Juxtaposition
sets two different thing close to each other to emphasize the different between them doesnt necessarily deal with completely opposite ideas
Restatement
state the same idea in variety of ways
Ethos
the writer/speaker presents him/herself to the dresser as credible trustworthy honest and ethical
Logos
theories/scientific facts indicated meaning Literally or historical analogies Definitions Factual data Quotation Citations
Understatement
to deliberately make a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Repetition
to state an idea for emphasis using the exact words two or more times to indicate that are important repeated phrases stick in the reader's head
Parallelism
using the same form of part of speech (repeated grammatical structure) to express or state different ideas
Apostrophe
words spoken to a person or object or is an abstract idea
Charged Words
words that evoke an emotional response
Imagery
words to described a scene or event
