Rhetorical devices: Designing the main body of your essay
Rhetorical devices: Designing the main body of your essay
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Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will be looking at the main body of our essay, before piecing everything together. Firstly, we will return to our essay plan and look at how to build the main body of our response, thinking about the function of the paragraph, the desired effect on the reader and the types of rhetorical devices that might be best to choose. We'll do this as a slow write to give you time to think about your options. At the end of the lesson, we'll critique our writing and compare to the model answer for fluency and control.
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5 Questions
Q1.
Which one of the following is a key feature of an introduction?
you create a mystery to intrigue your reader
you use humour to make your reader agree with you
you use statistics to show your ideas are valid
Q2.
What is the name of the technique where you give a story/real life example to explain your point of view?
account
antidote
recount
Q3.
This technique involves you giving the opposing line of argument. What is it called?
anti-argument
antithesis
juxtaposition
Q4.
"Dodgeball." What type of sentence is this?
fractured
it is not a sentence
simple
Q5.
In our conclusion we have tried to broaden the scope of our final paragraph to take on 'Big Picture' ideas and test the reader's moral stance. Which of the following does this refer to?
kairos
logos
pathos
5 Questions
Q1.
Match the definition to the term. "A word which adds detail. It is used to describe a noun."
adverb
alliteration
pronoun
Q2.
This rhetorical technique explains one thing in terms of another to highlight the ways they are alike –eg. “she’s as pale as a ghost.”
allusion
amplification
antithesis
Q3.
This rhetorical technique makes a reference to an event, place or person that is well known to make a point - “I can’t do that; I’m not Superman!”
amplification
analogy
antithesis
Q4.
This rhetorical technique makes a connection between two things – “that’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
allusion
amplification
analogy
Q5.
“Learning, real learning, takes time.” Which rhetorical device is this?
allusion
analogy
antithesis