Rhetoric | Satire | Rhetorical Devices | Rhetorical Devices | Figurative Language |
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Pathos, logos, ethos.
What are the Rhetorical Appeals?
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A work that ridicules the style of another work by imitation or exaggeration; often humorous. (ex. Saturday Night Live)
Parody
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Pretty ugly, virtual reality, jumbo shrimp.
What are some examples of an oxymoron?
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States the claim of the argument presented in the paper.
What is a thesis?
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The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze.
What is an example of personification?
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The context of a rhetorical act, that consists of an issue and and audience.
What is a Rhetorical Situation?
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When an author states or means the opposite from what he has said.
What is verbal irony?
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A piece of writing in praise of a deceased person.
What is an Epitaph?
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Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work.
What is ambiguity?
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A type of figurative language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
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Call to action, persuade, entertain, inform and educate.
What are the purposes for writing?
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Writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person's appearance.
What is a caricature?
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A statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered.
What is a rhetorical question?
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A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature?
What is an Anecdote?
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An exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
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Author, speaker, and subject.
What are the three elements of Aristotle's rhetorical triangle?
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The title, "A Modest Proposal."
What is an example of Irony?
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A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true.
What is a paradox?
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The repetition of the same words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is an Anaphora?
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Two unlike things being compared using like or as.
What is a simile?
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Acronym used to identify the speaker, subject, audience, occasion and purpose of a text.
What is SOAPS?
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Exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody.
What are the four techniques of satire?
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"If you take his parking place, you can expect World War ll all over again.."
What is an example of an Allusion?
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Involves the substitution of a name with another closely associated to it.
What is a metonymy.
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"She sells seashells by the seashore.."
What is an example of an Alliteration?
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