Rhetorical Terms Journal Assignment

Goals:

  • Review, understand, and incorporate vocabulary
  • Review writings from the past year
  • Prepare for test (Official AP test, and Classroom Assessment)

Due Date: 5 words due on the first day of each week (usually).

Each word will take one to two pages. NO LOOSE PAGES WILL BE ACCEPTED. You may use a spiral notebook, or other binding keeping all vocabulary together. I would recommend creating the journal in a spiral notebook and holding onto it. This is a paper, scissors, and glue activity, not a computer-aided or “wordle” assignment.

 The first page should be a list of the words in the order that you see here. This will serve as a table of contents and a record of what you’ve completed. This is worth points.

What must be on each spread:

  1. Rhetorical device written in bold with definition. Include synonyms if you wish,
  2. Definitions must be “rhetorical” definitions. Check your rhetorical handbook and LOC first.
  3. An example in context –find a written example in print, paste it into your journal.
  4. Explain the example: How does the literary device ADD to or illuminate the meaning of the piece (think in terms of author’s purpose and how she/he appeals to the audience: ethos, pathos, logos, etc.)
  5. Photo(s) cut out from magazines that help show (or remind you of) the function of the device-you may also use excerpts from the writing we’ve read this year or from magazines if pictures don’t seem appropriate.
  6. Explain how the photo demonstrates or represents the device.

OPTIONAL BUT ENCOURAGED: explain when a writer might use the strategy; what might the effect be on an audience?

Points: 5 per word, one point for each element above

Word List 1—Rhetoric and Argument:

  1. Rhetoric
  2. Rhetorical Strategies
  3. Audience
  4. Speaker/Persona
  5. Style
  1. Appeal (as in an argument – an appeal to the audience using…)
  2. Ethos
  3. Pathos
  4. Logos
  5. Syntax
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  1. Diction
  2. Tone
  3. Connotation
  4. Denotation
  5. Context
  1. Thesis statement
  2. Argument
  3. Claim (assertion)
  4. Evidence / data
  5. Assumption (AKA warrant)
List 2 on back /
  1. Counterargument
  2. Concession/concede
  3. Refutation/refute
  4. Position (as in speaker’s position or arguer’s position)
  5. Premise (remember the last premise is often called the conclusion)
  1. Fallacy
  2. Satire
  3. Classical Argument:
  4. Exordium,
  5. narration,
  6. refutation,
  7. confirmation,
  8. peroration

Word List 2
Syntactical Terms
  1. interrupted sentence
  2. inverted sentence
  3. listing
  4. cumulative/loose
  5. periodic
  1. parallelism – Antithesis
  2. parallelism – Chiasmus
  3. ellipses
  4. asyndeton
  5. anadiplosis
  1. anaphora
  2. epistrophe
  3. polysyndeton
Rhetorical Terms
  1. ambiguity
  2. anachronism
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  1. aphorism
  2. invective
  3. juxtaposition
  4. malapropism
  5. rhetorical question
  1. rhetorical fragment
  2. sensory detail
  3. shift
  4. turn
  5. cliché
  1. point of view
  2. conceit
  3. epithet
  4. euphemism
  5. hyperbole
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  1. imagery
  2. irony – verbal
  3. irony –situational
  4. extended metaphor
  5. metonymy
  1. oxymoron
  2. paradox
  3. pun
  4. allusion
  5. antithesis
  1. alliteration
  2. assonance
  3. consonance
  4. parody
  5. understatement

Not Required— words you might use in your definitions or for review:

Medium
Mode
Colloquial diction
Syllogism
Infer
Transition / Clause – subordinate, independent
Appositives
Punctuation (semi-colon, elipses, dashes, colon)
Allegory
Metaphor / Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
Synecdoche Onomatopoeia
Prose
Repetition / Prose
Repetition
Theme
Analogy
Figurative Language
Antecedent
Figure of speech