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