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Rhetoric for Students

Rhetorical devices are techniques used in speeches and writing to persuade an audience. The document defines and provides examples of several common rhetorical devices including repetition, metaphor, simile, allusion, allegory, analogy, alliteration, assonance, consonance, antithesis, parallelism, and anaphora. It also notes that analyzing the rhetorical devices used in Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech can reveal the rhetorical strategies that made it effective.

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Rhetoric for Students

Rhetorical devices are techniques used in speeches and writing to persuade an audience. The document defines and provides examples of several common rhetorical devices including repetition, metaphor, simile, allusion, allegory, analogy, alliteration, assonance, consonance, antithesis, parallelism, and anaphora. It also notes that analyzing the rhetorical devices used in Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech can reveal the rhetorical strategies that made it effective.

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Rhetorical Devices 

 
Rhetoric​:_____________________________________

____________________________________________

Speech:

__________________________

Martin Luther King Jr.

Initial Thoughts​:

Repetition​: Example:

1
Metaphor Simile

a comparison of two 
seemingly unlikely things 
that actually share common 
characteristics​. 

Metaphor Example: Simile Example:

Metaphor Drawing: Simile Drawing:

2
____________________​: Extending a phrase or a sentence, often
repeating the phrase, with elaboration and embellishment

Example​:​ ​Her ​love​ was great, a ​love​ filled with the purity 
of a thousand suns and extended to the far reaches of 
the Earth.  
Allusion​: _________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________

Allegory Analogy
Using one easy to understand

_______________ to explain a

more difficult ______________ .

Example:

Animal Farm

by George
Orwell

3
Alliteration​: the _________________ of the initial letter in a string of
words.

Example: My mother make many miraculous mittens.

Assonance Consonance
the repetition of the repetition of

_____________________ _______________________
sounds sounds

Example: The pitter patter of the clay


entranced the man who made
pottery.

__________________​: contrast made clearer by using contrasting


language.

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing”

4
Parallelism​:the use of components that are ___________________ in

_____________________.

Example:

Anaphora​: _________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________

Example:

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, 


do we not laugh?” 

Shakespeare ​The Merchant of Venice 

5
 

6
Rhetorical Strategies in MLK’s speech 

Allegory   
 
 
 
 
 
 

Alliteration    
 
 
 
 
 
 

Allusion   
 
 
 
 
 
 

Amplification    
 
 
 
 
 

Anaphora    
 
 
 
 
 

7
 

Antithesis    
 
 
 
 
 
 

Metaphor    
 
 
 
 
 

Parallelism   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repetition   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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