Rhetorical Strategies (Part 2) 10-19

What is Rhetoric?

• refers to the strategies we use to make an argument persuasive (the “how” of an argument)

• The circumstances give rise to the argument

• Appeal to logic or reason.

• Appeal to the credibility or the authority of the speaker.

What is this an example of?

You shine like a star.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

Giving human characteristics to something that is not human.

• Simile

• Allusion

• Personification

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  Hyperbole

A vivid description that appeals to a readers' senses to create an image or idea in their head.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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  Allusion

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  Imagery

The writer's attitude toward the reader and the subject of the message.

• Tone

• Personification

• Situation

• Mode

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

This is an example of what strategy?

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

  
  

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  Alliteration

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  Onomatopoeia

Words that sound like their sounds.

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  Onomatopoeia

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  Metaphor

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  Oxymoron

• Alliteration

An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally.

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  Simile

• Allusion

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  Pathos

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  Hyperbole

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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  Ethos

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  Allusion

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  Oxymoron

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  Metaphor

What is a Rhetorical Question

• A question that has an answer.

• A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.