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rhetorical devices

  • figures of speech used to enhance sound, memory, and understanding

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ethos

  • persuading the audience to trust experts

  • well-known people

  • believable - ethical

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logos

  • convincing using facts and evidence

  • logical - makes sense

  • charts, diagrams, statistics, percentages

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pathos

  • grabbing your attention with feelings

  • joy, sadness, excitement, nervousness, fear

  • sympathy - empathy

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rhetorical question

  • makes people think and pay attention - used for effect

  • change or solidify someone’s opinion

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alliteration

  • at least 2 words

  • repeating first sound

  • ex: peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

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allusion

  • reference to someone famous in literature, history, or in today’s world

  • big 3 usually are the bible, shakespeare, and mythology

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foreshadowing

  • hint at something in the future - or what’s going to come next

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hyperbole

  • extreme exaggeration

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metaphor

  • comparison of 2 unlike things without using like or as

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onomatopoeia

  • noise or sound word

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personification

  • giving human qualities to an animal or anything not human

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simile

  • comparison of two unlike things using like or as

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parallelism

  • two or more parts of a sentence use a similar form to give the passage pattern

  • ex: wounds caused by knives will heal, wounds caused by words will not heal

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antithesis

  • the use of two opposites in a sentence for contrasting effect

  • ex: when they go low, we go high

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anaphora

  • the repeating of a word or phrase at the beginning of the sentence

  • ex: i have a dream

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epistrophe

  • the repeating of a word or phrase at the end of the sentence

  • ex: a government of the people, by the people, for the people

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symploce

  • two or more repeating phrases at the beginning of the sentence and one at the end

  • ex: you want me on that wall, you need me on the wall

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diacope

  • using repetition with one or two words in between to break it up

  • ex: the horror! oh, the horror!

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progressio

  • several antithesis in succession (one after the next after the next)

  • ex: i say yes, you say no, i say stop, you say go

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chiasmus

  • refers to a grammatical structure that inverts a previous phrase

  • you say one thing, and then you say something very similar, but flipped around

  • ex: we shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us

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anadiplosis

  • where you use the last word or phrase of one clause as the first word or phrase of the next

  • ex: fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate

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