Rhetorical Features

This rhetorical device refers to the use of words or phrases with strong connotations to influence an audience.

• loaded language

• mood

• anaphora

• diction

This means the presentation of logical evidence, examples, or reasoning.

• logos

• pathos

• anaphora

• rule of three

This rhetorical device refers to an appeal to the audience's emotions

• tone

• mood

• anaphora

• pathos

This rhetorical element refers to the overall effect of an author's word choices and language choices.

• loaded language

• logos

• anaphora

• diction

This is a rhetorical device that assumes that people better understand concepts, situations, and ideas in groups of three

• the trinity

• rhetoric

• anaphora

• rule of three

This literary and rhetorical device refers to an author or speaker's attitude toward a subject

• rhetoric

• tone

• anaphora

• rule of threes

This is the meaning of rhetoric.

• an appeal to the speaker's expertise or understanding of right and wrong

• the use of words with strong connotations

• effective persuasive speech or writing
• an appeal to reason

In this speech, by Martin Luther King, Jr. the phrase "I have a dream" is an example of ---

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

• logos

• rule of three

• anaphora

• ethos