En224 Speeches and Rhetorical Devices (The Hill We Climb)

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rhetorical devices

Personal pronoun

Hyperbole

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Rhetorical questions

These are asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. They’re good for getting your audience to sit up and listen too!

Wrong answer

Rule of three

Hyperbole

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This is based on the principle that things that come in threes are more effective than any other number. When used in words, either by speech or text, the reader or audience is more likely to remember the information if it is written in threes.

Emotive language

Facts

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Imperative command

You may want to use instructional words to create a call to action or make your audience think. For example, 'you must act now!'

Direct address

Emotive language

Anecdote

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This is used when the writer or speaker purposefully directs their message to an individual or group of people. This could be by using the pronoun you, their name or names, or nicknames.

Anecdote

Emotive language

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Rhetorical question

is a technique where you pick specific words you can get your audience to feel a certain way. For example, you may use the words tragic, appalling or outrageous to create anger in your reader or listener.

Simile

Repetition

List of three

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Is when a single word or phrase is used multiple times in short succession for effect. It can help emphasise a point.

Anecdote

Direct address

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Imperative command

This is a short story that relates to the subject in a different context, often it's a personal story from the speaker's own life. They are used to create an emotion in their reader or listener.

Emotive language

Facts

Hyperbole

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These are statements which are true. By using them as a rhetorical device, you can convince the audience that your argument is the truth, too.

Rule of three

Hyperbole

Question 9/10

Repetition

This is used to exaggerate what you are saying for dramatic effect or to convey or intensify an emotion.

magazine article

speech

poem

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