Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

Direct Address

Answer 1

Addressing the audience using ‘you’ or calling them by their group name (‘Year 11s’, ‘Comrades’, ‘Brothers and Sisters’)

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

When several words close together have the same first letter.

Question 3

Anecdotes

Answer 3

Personal stories

Question 4

Facts

Answer 4

A thing that is known or proved to be true.

Question 5

Flattery

Answer 5

Excessive and insincere praise.

Question 6

Opinions

Answer 6

A statement that expresses a feeling, an attitude, a value judgment, or a belief.

Question 7

Opponent (Counter-argument)

Answer 7

Presenting opposing arguments and disproving them.

Question 8

Rhetorical Question

Answer 8

A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Question 9

Repetition

Answer 9

Saying the same word, line, phrase or slogan multiple times.

Question 10

Emotive Language

Answer 10

Language that presents intense feelings or that evokes an emotional response in the listener.

Question 11

Exaggeration (Hyperbole)

Answer 11

Intentionally and metaphorically presenting something as much better or much worse than it really is.

Question 12

Statistics

Answer 12

Persuasive data that supports your argument - usually presented as a percentage.

Question 13

Satire

Answer 13

The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or lack of understanding.

Question 14

Hypophora

Answer 14

Asking a rhetorical question and answering it immediately.

Question 15

Pathos

Answer 15

Appealing to the emotions of the audience.

Question 16

Ethos

Answer 16

Appealing to the audience’s ethics. Establishing yourself as credible.

Question 17

Logos

Answer 17

Appeal to logic and reason, often by presenting facts, figures and a reasoned argument.

Question 18

Anaphora

Answer 18

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Question 19

Opinions presented as facts

Answer 19

When opinions are presented using bare assertions and declarative sentences so they seem like fact and indisputable.