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Using rhetorical devices in newspaper articles
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...
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Preparing to write a persuasive speech
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...
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Developing a viewpoint using structural features
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...
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Revising and editing non-fiction writing
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...
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Employing Rhetorical Devices
The video entitled “Employing Rhetorical Devices” explores using rhetorical devices in a persuasive text.
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Sophia: Hyperbaton
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
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: Expletives
Notes introducing expletives and demonstrating how they can be used as a rhetorical device. Notes can be both read and listened to.
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Sophia: Hyperbaton
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: Repetition: Lesson 3
This lesson introduces repetition as a rhetorical device using an excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Address, 1881.
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Sophia: Parallelism
This lesson introduces parallelism as a rhetorical device. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [7:03] with the lesson's content.