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English Rhetorical
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rhetoric | The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing which specially make use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. |
| Pathos | An appeal to the heart the quality of evoking a feeling usually compassion, pity, sympathy, etc. |
| Logos | An appeal to the mind or logic often includes facts, reason, rationale, data, or "evidence: of some sort. |
| Ethos | An appeal to ethics or morals; aims to evoke a sense of rightness or justice. |
| Anaphora | The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, sentences, clauses, or paragraphs. |
| Epistrophe | A figure of repetition that occurs when the last word of set of words in one sentence, clause or phrase is repeated one or more times at the end of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases |
| Anadiplosis | A figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or terms in one sentence, clauses or phrase share repeated very near beginning of the next sentence, clause, or phrase. |
| Restatement | Instead of using the same word choice to emphasize a point, one states the ideating different way to develop the concept. |
| Parallelism | A figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. |
| Allusion | When one makes reference to a well-known historical event, famous person on work of art in order to make a comparison in the listener's mind. |
| Cadence | The rhythm in a sentence of words, used for effect. It is the rise and fall of the pace if the delivery (Rhyme, alliteration, sentence structure, and punctuation) |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same constant sound in neighboring words or sounds in neighboring words or stressors labels. |
| Sentence variation | Change up your sentences to keep us listening. Vary the rhythm= move between short and long sentences. Vary the structure= to many sentences with the same structure can grow monotonous. |
| Rhetorical Question | When one asks a question not for the purpose of further discussion, but to assert or deny an answer implicitly a question whose answer is obvious or implied. |
| Catalog (Stack) | The deliberate pilling up of images or details for effect, emphasis, etc. |
| Exemplum | A form of amplification using an example- brief or extended, real or fictions- to illustrate a point (an example) |
| Anecdote | A short and interesting got amusing story often relayed to demonstrate a point or to entertain. |
| Metaphor | Directly compares 2 unrelated things by stating that 1 thing is the other. |
| Simile | Directly compares 2 different things using the words "like" or "as" |
| Hyperbole | AN obvious and intentional exaggeration used for emphasis, humor or dramatic effect rather than a literal truth. |
| Framing of the speech | A guiding message or themes established in your introduction and maintained in your conclusion. |
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