Coming up: vocabulary quiz on rhetorical devices May 10. (another copy below of the handout)
Powerpoint presentations Thursday / Friday
Counselors coming in next Tuesday to work with your college naviance accounts
Rhetorical Devices vocabulary quiz on Friday, May 10
In class powerpoint presentations, based upon your annotated bibliographies. (class handout / copy below)
In class powerpoint presentations, based upon your annotated bibliographies. (class handout / copy below)
Power Point
presentation to align with annotated bibliography
In class work for
Tuesday, April 30 and Wednesday, May 1
Presentation to be
shared on Thursday, May 2 and Friday, May 3
Directions:
You will have a total of 6 slides. All slides must have an
off-white background, no bright white
Slide 1: title slide; write the name of your research
project and in small font beneath your full name. Be mindful of capitalization
and spelling. On this same slide place a small image OR behind the text fill
the screen with a photo that aligns with your topic.
Slides 2 through 6. These five slides should each have a
couple of images that reflect 5 aspects of your research. You may put no more
than six words on each slide.
By the end of class on Wednesday, these must be shared with
Parker (2006630)
What are you going to do with these?
On Thursday, May 2, your presentation will be opened and you
will have 3 minutes to share from the front of the class your information.
1.
What was your topic choice? (first slide)
2.
Followed by the next five slides where you will
briefly share out five points that you have learned.
3.
Ms. DiPerna will open the slide document and
keep the pace.
4.
You will be graded upon having followed the
slide directions:
Title
slide plus 5 more
No
white backgrounds
Clearly visible, relevant images
No
more than six clue words on the slide
Ready to go on Thursday (you will not have access to a Chromebook)
Presentation skills: face audience, articulate your sentences, and
project your voice
And
content knowledge
Rhetoric is a technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form. It is an art of discourse, which studies and employs various methods to convince, influence or please an audience.
What are rhetorical devices? Rhetorical devices are strategies used to put forth your argument. Note that figurative language devices (those marked with an asterisk below) are common rhetorical language devices
Device Definition
1. anaphora the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
2. epistrophe the repetition of a word at the end of each phrase or clause: “I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
3. analogy the comparison of two pairs that have the same relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you can choose the correct second pair. Part to whole, opposites, results of are types of relationships you should find
4. apostrophe interruption of thought to directly address a person or a personification: “So, I ask you, dear reader, what would you have me do?”
5. * imagery language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling
touching
6. counterpoints contrasting ideas such as black/white, darkness/light, good/bad
7. * hyperbole exaggeration or overstatement
8. irony an expression, often humorous or sarcastic, that exposes perversity or absurdity
Aristotelian Appeals
9. logos appeals to the head using logic, numbers, explanations, and facts. Through Logos, a writer aims at a person's intellect. The idea is that if you are logical, you will understand
10. ethos appeals to the conscience, ethics, morals, standards, values, principles
11. pathos appeals to the heart, emotions, sympathy, passions, sentimentality.
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