1. Rhetorical Devices and Structures
How to sound really convincing and eloquent to win people over to your side!

2. Rhetoric Definition: Using language effectively to please or persuade.
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3. Rhetorical Structures
How an author or speaker arranges what they will say in order please or persuade better.
Two Types:
Repetition
Parallelism

4. Repetition
Using the same words frequently to emphasize a message or point

5. Parallelism Repeating a grammatical structure or set of words
Example: Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” Speech
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’”
“I have a dream that one day the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

6. Rhetorical Devices Techniques used to persuade better Two Types:
Analogy
Restatement

7. Analogy Shows a comparison between two unlike things
Can be metaphors “table of brotherhood” MLK
Can be similes “freedom is like a beautiful kite that can go higher with the breeze” GH Bush
Can be SAT problems:
Hat is to head as shoe is to _____.

8. Restatement
Expresses the same idea but in different words to help explain a point better
Example: “The United States will continue to offer any assistance we can as Japan continues to recover…”
“We are heartbroken by the unfolding tragedy in Japan.” Obama, 14 March 2011
Different words, same message: restated like your conclusion paragraphs!

9. Summary
Repetition: Using the same words frequently to emphasize a message or point
Parallelism: Repeating a grammatical structure or set of words
Analogy: Shows a comparison between two different things
Restatement: Expresses the same idea but in different words to help explain a point better