Rhetoric

Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis

Modes of Rhetoric/Discourse • • • •

Narrative Expository Description Argument/persuasion

Strategies • • • • • • •

Compare/contrast Process Analysis Example Cause/effect Classification Definition

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Diction Syntax Tone and mood Purpose Satire

Devices • • • • • • •

Pun, double entendre, onomatopoeia Similes, metaphor, analogies Personification, allegory, fables Metonymy, synecdoche Apposition, epithets Hyperbole, understatement, euphemism Paradox and oxymoron

Rhetorical Techniques • Repetition – Parallelism • antithesis

– Ellipsis – Exclamation – Parenthesis

• Subordination • Questions

Effects of Rhetoric • Contribute to the logical structure of the text • Establish emotional effect • Convey to readers the nature of our character or ethical orientation

Rhetorical Analysis • • • • • •

Subject Thesis Tone Purpose Mode of discourse Patterns of arrangement

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Syntax Dialogue Diction Langauge Imagery

Persuasive Appeals • Logos • Pathos • Ethos

Conclusion • Carefully read the passage • Recognize and identify strategies used in the passage • Determine how these strategies are utilized in the development of the author’s purpose and tone