Valentine’s Day Cards with Rhetorical Strategies

Congratulations! You are responsible for making Ms.Rubin’s Valentine’s Day cards using IB/AP rhetorical strategies that will help assist you on the open-ended AP free response writing prompt. All cards must start with “Dear Male Suitor” and end with “Love, Emily Rubin.” Yes, Ms.Rubin will actually hand these cards out. Please feel free to be as creative as you want, but there are some requirements to help you best review literary devices and syntax. Your card must include the following:

  1. Allusion:an indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work with which the author believes the reader will be familiar. It is highly recommended that you create an allusion to a Greek God or Goddess or a character in literature.

Ex) She is a lady taken under the influence of Philotes, the Greek God of affection.

  1. Anaphora: the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

Ex)She’s sick and tired of being lonely. She’s sick and tired of John Stamos being unavailable. She’s sick and tired of books being her only friend.

  1. Zuegma: the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words

Ex)While visiting New York, she got discount tickets and a boyfriend.

  1. Parallelism:the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.

Ex) She couldn’t find her chocolates:she looked under the bed, in the cabinet, and on the dresser.*Must Use Colon*

  1. Rhetorical Question: a question asked for persuasive effect but not meant to be answered.

Ex) You didn’t buy Ms.Rubin chocolate even though she deserves it?

  1. Chiasmus:Figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second.

Ex) Has love failed Ms.Rubin or has Ms.Rubin failed love?

  1. Polysyndeton:the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses. Ex) Ms.Rubincried and ate and slept and screamed.
  2. Litotes: ironical understatement by using double negatives, positive statement is expressed by negating it’s opposite expressions.

Ex) She’s not that bad.

*You must use an appositive and a semi-colon with a transitional phrase, and you must have five higher-level words per paragraph or section of your card*