2nd and 4th period9/25/14

9/25/2014

Get out all notes and assignments for Rhetorical Devices and “Speech in the Virginia Convention”

First of all…Rhetorical Devices

Rhetorical devices are structures or skills within language that appeal to readers and communicate ideas.

In other words, rhetorical devices make you want to listen.

Rhetorical DevicesReview

structures within language that appeal to readers and communicate ideas

Parallelism is a kind of repetition in which words or phrases in the same grammatical form connect ideas. Ex. “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet?”

Biblical Allusions are references to events, figures, or phrases from the Bible. In this text, they have the rhetorical appeal of shared beliefs.

Rhetorical Questions are questions to which no answers are expected. ex. “But when shall we grow stronger?”

Antithesis expresses contrasting ideas in parallel grammatical structures. ex. “Give me liberty, or give me death.”

Repetition is the recurrence of words, phrases, or lines. ex. “Let it come! I repeat sir, let it come!”

More Antithesis

› "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe

› "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

› “Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.” (source unknown)

› It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

› To err is human; to forgive divine. - An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope

More Parallelism

"I don’t want to live on in my work. I want to live on in my apartment." - Woody Allen

“Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered).” (Julius Caesar) We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have

supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude." - Jesse Jackson

“My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.” - Barack Obama

What do you need to be able to do?

Objective: You need to be able to point out these rhetorical devices and then tell me why the speaker used them.

› rhetorical question› antithesis› repetition› parallelism› Biblical allusions

Individual assignment part 1(Explain Rhetorical devices)

On your separate sheet of paper: Answer the following questions about the

example you found of parallelism and the example you found of aqntithesis

1) What does the line/sentence mean?2) How does it help explain the main idea of the

text?3) How does the rhetorical device help Patrick

Henry convince his listeners to agree with him?

Your paper should look like this:

Parallelism: page ___ line(s) ___ “__________________________” 1.

2.

3.

Antithesis: page ___ line(s) ___ “__________________________” 1.

2.

3.

Individual Assignment part 2

Annotate your copy of “Speech in the Virginia Convention:To annotate means:› Circle and define words to which you

don’t know the meaning› Highlight all rhetorical devices you see› Summarize EACH paragraph of the speech

in the margins

Homework

Make sure you have the following assignments finished:

Speech in the Virginia Convention Handout questions

Rhetorical devices explained (today’s assignment)

Annotated speech