RHETORIC!!!

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What is rhetoric? How is it employed?
Greeks: 3 valued perspectives when constructing a story or speaking in public;
Ethos (character) Pathos (emotion) and Logos (logic)
Figures of speech used to aid well-tooled rhetorical writing:
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Irony
Euphemism
Apostrophe
Understatement
Personification
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Oxymoron
Paradox
Antithesis
Assonance
Anaphora
Chiasmus
Litotes
Pun


site for A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms:
http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html#10
top 20 least known terms!
http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/a/unfamiliarterms.htm

STUDY these terms for class...know examples and descriptions..
http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/a/20figures.htm