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Rhetoric Unit

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Rhetoric Unit Introductory Materials

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Rhetorical Analysis of Dennis Rodman Incident

Use these contrasting accounts of the same incident to show students elements of rhetoric (tone, diction, etc.)

This resource is part of the Rhetoric Unit and the English 10 course.

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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rodmanphase1.htm

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Rhetoric Terms Jeopardy

This is a great way to review for the unit test. Split kids into small groups to compete in Rhetoric Jeopardy.

This resource is part of the Rhetoric Unit and the English 10 course.

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RhetoricTermsJeopardy.ppt (157kb)

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Rhetoric Terms Jeopardy Answers

English 10A Rhetoric Terms Jeopardy Answers

 

Overview

100 – What is rhetoric?

200 – What are rhetorical strategy and stylistic devices?

300 – What are the writer, reader, and subject?

400 – What is (any of the following: flirting, politics, diplomacy, war, civil disobedience)?

500 – What are modes of development?

 

 

SOAPS

100 – What is Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker?

200 – What is Speaker?

300 – What is Audience?

400 – What is the Occasion?

500 – What are to persuade, to express, and to inform?

 

 

Figurative Language

100 – What is a metaphor?

200 – What is a simile?

300 – What is personification?

400 – What is the use of language that does not literally say what the writer means?

500 – What is verbal irony?

 

 

Sound and Content

100 – What is a rhetorical question?

200 – What is onomatopoeia?

300 – What is alliteration?

400 – What is assonance?

500 – What is parallelism (or parallel structure)?

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

100 – What is hyperbole?

200 – What is an allusion?

300 – What is oxymoron?

400 – What is tone?

500 – What is euphemism?

 

 

Final Jeopardy

What is diction?

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Eulogy for Martin Luther King Jr.

I have students listen along to Robert F. Kennedy's speech while we read along in our textbooks. Students can identify SOAPS for the speech, as well as rhetorical devices like appeal to ethos, and parallel structure. SOAPS = Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker. More information on SOAPS can be found on here.

This resource is part of the Rhetoric Unit and the English 10 course.

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