1. Rhetorical Devices
English 10 Julius Caesar

2. 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

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

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

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

6. 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

7. Comparing two unlike things without using like or as
Metaphor

8. Personification
Giving human qualities to a
non-human thing

9. Rhetorical questions

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

11. Parallelism

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