Rhetorical Devices English 10 Julius Caesar

What are Rhetorical Devices a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective

Logos Appeals to one’s sense of logic or reasoning Uses facts, numbers, statistics to prove a point

Pathos Appeals to one’s emotions Uses personal stories or emotional words to attract the reader

Ethos Appeals to one’s ethics Based on the reliability, creditability, and believability of one’s character

Analogy A comparison between two different things to show some likeness Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer. How a doctor diagnoses diseases is like how a detective investigates crimes. Just as a caterpillar comes out of its cocoon, so we must come out of our comfort zone

Comparing two unlike things without using like or as Metaphor

Personification Giving human qualities to a non-human thing

Rhetorical questions

A series of three parallel words, clauses, or statements TriColon

Parallelism

Maxims A brief fundamental truth or rule of conduct A nugget of wisdom