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Rhetorical Techniques in Speech

Rhetorical Techniques in Speech. Terms to Know. Speech Terms & Vocabulary. Rhetoric The art of analyzing all the language choices that a writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a given situation so that text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective

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Rhetorical Techniques in Speech

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  1. Rhetorical Techniques in Speech Terms to Know

  2. Speech Terms & Vocabulary • Rhetoric • The art of analyzing all the language choices that a writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a given situation so that text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective • The specific features of texts, written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for readers or listeners.

  3. Speech Terms & Vocabulary • Figures of Speech • Metaphor: an implied comparison that does not use the words like or as • His voice was a waterfall of emotion. • Simile: a type of comparison that uses the word like or as • That shirt is red as a fire truck. • Hyperbole: an exaggeration for effect • The man stood 100 feet tall over the cowering boy.

  4. Speech Terms & Vocabulary • Rhetorical Techniques • Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words • Sally sells seas shells… • Allusion: a reference in a written or spoken text to another text or some other body of knowledge • Often used to help the reader/audience associate prior knowledge to what is being presented • Anaphora: The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. • “Now is the time….”

  5. Speech Terms & Vocabulary • Rhetorical Techniques • Chiasmus: a verbal pattern (a type of antithesis) in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed. • Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. • Repetition: use more than once of a sound, word, phrase, or clause to emphasize meaning or to achieve effect.

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