Can you identify the rhetorical device being used in the above cartoon?
Coming up: "Mariner" vocabulary quiz on Thursday NOT FRIDAY
In class: "Mariner" vocabulary power point review
Due at the close of class: rhetorical device handout. You will receive a grade on the analysis of the Clinton speech. This is independent work.
Below is a copy of yesterday's handout.
Name _______________________Rhetoric
Rhetoric is a technique of using
language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form. It is an art
of discourse, which studies and employs various methods to convince, influence
or please an audience.
What are rhetorical devices?
Rhetorical devices are
strategies used to put forth your argument. Note that figurative language
devices (those marked with an asterisk below) are common rhetorical language
devices
Device Definition
1.
anaphora the repetition
of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
2.
epistrophe the repetition of a word at the end of
each phrase or clause: “I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth.”
3.
analogy the comparison of two pairs that have the same
relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you
can choose the correct second pair. Part to whole, opposites, results of are
types of relationships you should find
4.
apostrophe interruption
of thought to directly address a person or a personification: “So, I ask you,
dear reader, what would you have me do?”
5.
* imagery language that evokes one or
all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling
touching
6.
counterpoints
contrasting ideas such as black/white, darkness/light, good/bad
7.
* hyperbole
exaggeration or
overstatement
8.
irony an expression, often humorous or sarcastic,
that exposes perversity or absurdity
Aristotelian Appeals
9.
logos appeals to the head using logic, numbers,
explanations, and facts. Through Logos, a writer aims at a person's intellect.
The idea is that if you are logical, you will understand
10. ethos
appeals to the conscience, ethics, morals, standards, values,
principles
11. pathos appeals to the heart, emotions, sympathy,
passions, sentimentality.
Name_____________________________ Rhetorical Devices Practice
Part 1:
Identify the rhetorical device –logos, ethos or pathos- employed in the
following examples and explain how they are used.
1. “Doctors all over the world recommend this type of treatment.”
Rhetorical device______________________
How
used:____________________________________________________________________________
2. Yes, this car is more expensive, but
don't you want your family to be safe?
Rhetorical device___________________________
How
used:___________________________________________________________________________
3. “My endless volunteering resume,
years of experience interacting and assisting the people of this community, and
efficient cooperation skills work to build me up as the most appropriate
candidate for mayor.”
Rhetorical device__________________________________
How
used:___________________________________________________________________________
4. "Based on the dozens of
archaeological expeditions I’ve made all over the world, I am confident that
those potsherds are Mesopotamian in origin."
Rhetorical device____________________________________
How used: ___________________________________________________________________________
5. "The algorithms have been run in a
thousand different ways, and the math continues to check out."
Rhetorical
device___________________________________
How used: _________________________________________________________________________
6. "You’ll make the right decision
because you have something that not many people do: you have
heart."
Rhetorical
device_________________________________
How
used:_______________________________________________________________________
7. "In 25 years of driving the same
route, I haven’t seen a single deer."
Rhetorical
device__________________________________
How
used:_______________________________________________________________
8. "You will never be satisfied in
life if you don’t seize this opportunity. Do you want to live the rest of your
years yearning to know what would have happened if you just jumped when you had
the chance?"
Rhetorical
device__________________________________
How used:_______________________________________________________________________
This speech was delivered by Hillary
Rodham Clinton, who was First Lady of the United States at the time, on
September 5th, 1995 in Beijing, China. It was part of the United Nations Fourth
World Conference on Women.
* I have
abridged this speech for the purposes of our class, but the content and meaning
remain intact. For the full version, visit: http://gos.sbc.edu/c/clinton.html
What we are learning around the world is that if women
are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from
violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn
as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when
families flourish, communities and nations will flourish.
Women comprise more than half the world's population.
Women are 70% percent of the world's poor, and two-thirds of those who are not
taught to read and write.
Women are the primary caretakers for most of the
world's children and elderly. Yet much of the work we do is not valued - not by
economists, not by historians, not by popular culture, not by government
leaders.
At this very moment, as we sit here, women around the
world are giving birth, raising children, cooking meals, washing clothes,
cleaning houses, planting crops, working on assembly lines, running companies,
and running countries. Women also are dying from diseases that should have been
prevented or treated; they are watching their children succumb to malnutrition
caused by poverty and economic deprivation; they are being denied the right to
go to school by their own fathers and brothers; they are being forced into
prostitution, and they are being barred from the bank lending office and banned
from the ballot box.
Those of us who have the opportunity to be here have
the responsibility to speak for those who could not.
It is a violation of human rights when babies are
denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because
they are born girls. It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are
sold into the slavery of prostitution. It is a violation of human rights when a
leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they
are subjected to in their own homes.
If there is one message that echoes forth from this
conference, it is that human rights are women's rights - and women's rights are
human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak
freely - and the right to be heard.
As long as discrimination and inequities remain so
commonplace around the world - as long as girls and women are valued less, fed
less, fed last, overworked, underpaid, not schooled and subjected to violence
in and out of their homes - the potential of the human family to create a
peaceful, prosperous world will not be realized.
Let this Conference be our - and the world's - call to
action.
Name___________________________________
Rhetorical devices part 2, analyzing a speech for rhetorical devices.
1.
Read the accompanying speech given by Hillary
Clinton in Beijing, China in 1995
2.
Review the rhetorical devices
3.
Reread the speech, underlining and noting a
minimum of 5 textual examples that demonstrate rhetorical techniques. You must have at least two that are not
Aristotelian.
4.
Copy out the example below, identifying the
device. Use ellipsis as needed; you do not have to copy out the complete sentence,
but you must include a complete supporting example.
5.
Explain the use of the device.
Example 1.
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Example 2
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Example 3
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Example 4
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Example 5
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