Instructional Video17:00
Curated Video

Using rhetorical devices in newspaper articles

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Pupil outcome: I can use a range of rhetorical devices in newspaper articles. Key learning points: - Rhetorical devices are used to evoke an emotion in the reader or to persuade them of something - Newspaper articles typically use a...
Instructional Video25:20
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Preparing to write a persuasive speech

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Pupil outcome: I can create a plan that helps me to structure and prepare to write the first draft of a persuasive speech. Key learning points: - Considering the purpose, audience and form of writing can help you begin to make choices...
Instructional Video28:50
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Developing a viewpoint using structural features

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Pupil outcome: I can use structural features to develop my ideas and create an interesting speech. Key learning points: - It is important to consider the overall structure of your writing. - Creating a specific focus for each section of...
Instructional Video35:42
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Revising and editing non-fiction writing

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Pupil outcome: I can use effective editing strategies to revise and rewrite a response. Key learning points: - Revising and editing written work is a great way to improve our writing skills overall. - Improving vocabulary choices and...
Instructional Video4:03
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Employing Rhetorical Devices

K - 8th
The video entitled “Employing Rhetorical Devices” explores using rhetorical devices in a persuasive text.
Instructional Video
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Sophia: Hyperbaton

9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the rhetorical device hyperbaton, changing traditional word order for emphasis. It defines hyperbaton, explains why it is used, provides examples, and practice. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Epistrophe

9th - 10th
This lesson introduces epistrophe as a rhetorical device. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content. [2:20]
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Expletives

9th - 10th
Notes introducing expletives and demonstrating how they can be used as a rhetorical device. Notes can be both read and listened to.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Hyperbaton

9th - 10th Standards
The lesson introduces hyperbaton and goes over how hyperbaton is used in writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [2:57] with the lesson's content.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Anaphora

9th - 10th
This lesson introduces anaphora as a rhetorical device. [2:18]
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Repetition: Lesson 3

9th - 10th
This lesson introduces repetition as a rhetorical device using an excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Address, 1881.
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Sophia: Parallelism

9th - 10th
This lesson introduces parallelism as a rhetorical device. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [7:03] with the lesson's content.