This slideshow focuses on the impact of rhetorical devices and how they impact text. It explains eight common rhetorical devices: anaphora, asyndeton, chiasmus, direct address, hyperbaton, parallelism, polysyndeton, and rhetorical...

This PDF lesson plan prepares students for multiple portions of the AP Language and Composition exam (specifically, the multiple choice section and the rhetorical analysis prompt) by analyzing a brief text which students will be able to...

A slideshow discussing ten rhetorical devices, with links to examples, in-depth information, and a video. Covers logos, ethos, pathos, analogy, metaphor, irony, personification, rhetorical question, tricolon, and maxims. Presents a...

This lesson gives an overview of rhetorical strategies.

A six-slide presentation introducing hypophora and explaining its use as a rhetorical device.

A four-slide document introducing understatement and explaining how it can be used as a rhetorical device.

A five-slide presentation introducing hyperbole and explaining its use as a rhetorical device.

This lesson introduces hypophora as a rhetorical device. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

This slideshow lesson focuses on types of questions; it provides background, purpose, and a list of the seven types of questions: rhetorical, direct or interrogative, indirect, open-ended, closed, and embedded. It provides background and...

This lesson introduces chiasmus as a rhetorical device.

This lesson introduces hyperbole as a rhetorical device. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

This lesson introduces oxymoron as a rhetorical device.

This lesson introduces antithesis as a rhetorical device.

An image of "Costume of the allegorical figure "Rhetoric"", created by Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1585 (Pen, blue wash on white paper, 304 x 205 mm).

This slideshow focuses on oxymoron by defining the term, discussing its purpose, and providing examples. L.9-10.5a Figures of Speech

This PDF is a critique form for evaluating informative speeches. SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation. CCSS.ELA-LiteracySL.3, SL.9-10.3 Eval Presentation

This lesson discusses the importance of parallel construction in pairs and comparisons or contrasts. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

This downloadable slideshow focuses on how an author's purpose and point of view work together in fiction and nonfiction, and how to identify the point of view.

This lesson goes over how to incorporate questions in a composition.

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.

William Lowndes Yancey (August 10, 1814 - July 27, 1863) was a journalist, politician, orator, diplomat and an American leader of the Southern secession movement. A member of the group known as the Fire-Eaters, Yancey was one of the most...

Euripides was born in the island of Salamis, in B.C. 480, his parents having been among those who fled thither at the time of the invasion of Attica by Xerxes. He studied rhetoric under Prodicus, and physics under Anaxagoras. - Smith, 1882

Demosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient...

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.