Language & Power: Power in Discourse

If power is enforceable because it comes from a place of authority - eg rules, laws - it can be described as...

• influential power

• instrumental power

The power to shape ideas or to persuade an audience can be described as...

• influential power

• instrumental power

In rhetoric, an appeal to logic, reason and rationality is known as...

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• kairos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

'Teacher talk' is an example of...

• instrumental power (spoken)

• instrumental power (written)

• Influential power (spoken)

• influential power (written)

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Modal auxiliary verbs that express possibility, probability or certainty are known as...

• epistemic

• deontic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Modal auxiliary verbs that express degrees of necessity and obligation are known as...

• epistemic

• deontic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.8.5

Every profession generates its own specialised language or field specific lexis. We often call this...

• rhetoric

• graphology

• jargon

• neologisms

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

Which of these is not likely to be a graphology feature?

• Images

• Rhetorical devices

• Font

• Colour

• Layout

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Which rhetorical device is this: opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

• antithesis

• asyndeton

• anaphora

• assonance

Which rhetorical device is this: understatement, for intensification, by denying the opposite of the thing being affirmed. (Eg 'not bad' rather than 'good')

• metonymy

• litotes

• tautology

• zeugma

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3