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Rhetorical Devices
Ms. Salemme
California Standards
● Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and
relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the
action is ordered, how the characters/archetypes are introduced and
developed).
● Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text,
including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of
specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with
multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or
beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)
● Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing
what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire,
sarcasm, irony, or understatement).
● By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories,
dramas, and poems, in the grades 11–CCR text complexity band
proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
What is Rhetoric?
anyone heard of it before?
Hook 1
Image: stick figure thinking.
Rhetoric: the art of persuasive
speaking or writing
Her love was great, a love filled with the purity of a thousand
suns and extended to the far reaches of the Earth.
Allusion
Visual Aid 2
Image: (Iamag.co)
Shrek References.
Shrek compared to
Snow White.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CT_Zet8k6ew
Now you try!
Give your own example of
one of the devices
Progress Monitoring 1
let’s look back at the
speech
Notice any of the strategies
you just learned?
Take a couple minutes with a
partner to search the speech.
Progress Monitoring 2
Allegory and Analogy
Allegory: A story, poem, or
work where each element is
representative of something
else.
The pitter patter of the clay entranced the man who made pottery.
Dual Coding 3
Antithesis
Contrast made clear by using contrasting language.
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing”
Parallelism
The use of components that are similar in
structure.
Like father, like son.
I am strong. I am fierce. I am powerful.
Repetition
Sound Phrases
Alliteration Parallelism
Culminating Activity
What are the effect
of these devices?
Which would you like to try to use in an essay?
Culminating Question