PPT-How to Write Rhetorical Device Entries

Step 1 Select a device from your reading that stood out to you ie mood Write the term and its rhetorical definition next to it Mood The prevailing atmosphere of emotional aura of a work Setting tone and events can affect the mood Mood is similar to tone and atmosphere. By: Khalil Bordus. Allusion . Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text. (. P. atterns of Development). Rhetorica. l Mode. Purpose. Description. To detail what a person, place or object is like. Narration. To relate an event. Illustration. To. provide specific instances or examples. Syntax. How sentence structure may be a rhetorical strategy. Syntax is the order of words in a sentence/the sentence structure. Certain syntactical choices can have a . rhetorical effect . and can contribute to the . EQ: How does language shape meaning?. Warm- Up: Tone Up. Whimsical: . playful and fanciful, imaginative in a strange, pleasing way..  . Dejected:.  sad and dispirited; depressed.  . Baffled: . ???????????????. Loaded Question Definition. Is used to imply something without coming out and saying it. “Why does the president hate rich people?” implies without saying it that the president hates rich people. That couldn’t stop us. And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we’d go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we’d just go on singing “Over my head I see freedom in the air.” And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can. English III. Rhetorical Devices. Tools a writer/speaker uses to communicate clearly to his/her audience.. Used for persuasion or argumentation. Rhetorical Questions. Definition: A question that needs no answer.. How would you define the words rhetoric or rhetorical?. Classic Definitions of Rhetoric. Aristotle:. . Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.”. SIMILE. METAPHOR. ALLUSION. . HYPERBOLE. UNDERSTATEMENT. Rhetorical Analysis. What the Author Does. Rhetorical devices . are the tools the writer uses to produce the writing. . Rhetorical technique . Rhetorical Device Definition Example Expletive Sound Device any syllable, word, or phrase conveying no independent meaning, especially one inserted in a line of verse for the sake of the meter. Fi (. P. atterns of Development). Rhetorica. l Mode. Purpose. Description. To detail what a person, place or object is like. Narration. To relate an event. Illustration. To. provide specific instances or examples. Rhetoric. is a . technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form.. A . rhetorical device . is a use of language that is intended to have an effect on its audience, such as to persuade or evoke an emotion. . To the victors go the spoils!. (. hehehe. that’s an anastrophe). Rules. Each group must send up one challenger per question.. You must take turns; one person cannot come up more often than the rest of the group.. Accounting . February 2014. Warm Up. The Walt Disney Company. What do you think of when you hear the word DISNEY?. How many of you think of the environment when you hear the word Disney?. Warm Up.