Rhetorical Choices

Comparison

• highlights the difference

• Clarifies understanding: By comparing something unfamiliar to something familiar

• Enhances imagery

Alliteration

It makes the sentences more memorable and emphasizes deep emotional connections-builds to the rhythm and flow of writing

Anaphora

Repetition

• Appeals to the urgency

• Strengthening persuasion

• Creating emotional resonance

  • reader feel the authors emotions deeper

• Highlights the importance

Diction

• Formal: Respectfully, I must disagree. 

• Informal: No way, that’s not true at all.

• Pedantic: In examination of your stance, I have identified some critical errors that I will now expound on.

• Pedestrian: I understand what you’re saying, but there’s something very important that you’re missing.

• Slang: You’re full of it! 

• Colloquial: Sounds like you’ve loaded the wrong wagon.

• Abstract: What you said doesn’t feel right.

• Concrete: I understand that you believe you are correct, but you are missing a necessary piece of information.

• Poetic: What a foolish and ignorant thing you just said

Tone

• humor

• inspirational

• formal

• informal

• optimistic

• descriptive

• assertive