Copy of IB Rhetoric Notes - Strategies, Tropes, & Schemes of Balance

Rhetoric

The art of persuasion.

Logos

Appeals to the rational mind through facts and statistics.

Pathos

Appeals to the reader’s emotion.

Ethos

Demonstrates the writer's credibility.

Rhetorical Tropes

Alterations in the usual meanings of words or phrases.

Metaphor

A comparison between two unrelated things.

Simile

A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.

Hyperbole

Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.

Rhetorical Schemes

Arrangements of ideas, words, or phrases that are stylistically effective.

Parallelism

Expresses similar ideas in similar grammatical structures.

Climax

Arrangement of ideas in order of importance.

Antithesis

Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas.

Anaphora

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.

Epistrophe

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses.

Epanalepsis

Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning.

Zeugma

A term that involves a sort of 'yoking' of different meanings.

Chiasmus

Reversal of grammatical structure in the second clause or phrase.