Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn about Sam's three tricks: parallel structure, the rhetorical question, and transitional words and phrases.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sat Reading Test: Rhetoric
Details about Rhetoric on the SAT Reading Test. One definition of the word rhetoric is "the study of writing or speaking." Rhetoric questions on the Reading Test assess how well you understand the choices that authors make as they...
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University: Forest of Rhetoric
This site is provided for by the Brigham Young University. Almost anything you would want to know about rhetoric and speech is here with great examples and explanations. Intended for a college-level audience, but plenty for younger...
University of Kentucky
Kentucky Classics: A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms With Examples
Rhetorical terms are defined on this site by the Kentucky Division of Classics. With sentence examples of each in English and Greek. Also related links to Perseus.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Use Rhetoric to Get What You Want
How do you get what you want, using just your words? Aristotle set out to answer exactly that question over two thousand years ago with a treatise on rhetoric. Camille A. Langston describes the fundamentals of deliberative rhetoric and...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: Rhetoric
Students engage with texts that have persuasive power and examine how argument is created. The variety of texts allows students to evaluate the impact of occasion and audience upon the use of rhetorical appeals in a variety of media....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay using effective rhetorical devices and transitions.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay using effective rhetorical devices and transitions.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Rhetoric of 9 11
An excellent online resource that contains a large collection of links to speeches and rhetorical artifacts all pertaining to September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America. Presented in a timeline of events with material in audio,...
Other
Seymour Community School District: 10 Rhetorical Devices [Pdf]
A slideshow discussing ten rhetorical devices, with links to examples, in-depth information, and a video. Covers logos, ethos, pathos, analogy, metaphor, irony, personification, rhetorical question, tricolon, and maxims. Presents a...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Rhetorical Organization of Neoclassical Couplet [Pdf]
This a two-page PDF of the article "The Rhetorical Organization of the Neoclassical Couplet."
University of Victoria (Canada)
U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary and Rhetorical Terms: An Alphabetical List
This is an alphabetical list of literary and rhetorical terms; each includes a definition and examples.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Rhetoric & the Story of Corax vs. Tisias
After reading the arugments of each of two lawyers in court, decide who wins.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Putting It Together: Rhetorical Reading
This is a summary of the previous lessons having to do with rhetorical reading including rhetorical context, previewing text, actively reading, using context clues, and reading voraciously.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Putting It Together: Rhetorical Appeals
This lesson brings together the rhetorical appeals including Logos, Pathos, and Ethos and how to identify and apply each. Click the Next link for more information.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Analysis: Rhetorical Analysis
This lesson focuses on defining rhetorical analysis and identifying and applying different types of analytic processes. It also provides a practice activity.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices
Analyze the persuasive impact of rhetorical structures and devices in famous speeches.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Rhetoric
This site from the Internet Classics Archive provides the full text of Aristotle's "Rhetoric"; translated by W. Rhys Roberts.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Rhetorical Strategies
This lesson gives an overview of rhetorical strategies.
Other
Dr. Wheeler's Website: Rhetoric
A definition of Rhetoric along with links to additional information on logos, ethos, and pathos. Common Rhetorical Mistakes and an explanation of how rhetoric works are also provided.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Rhetorical Devices and Historically Significant Speeches
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives students the opportunity to analyze Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech and identify the rhetorical devices that make them...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Aaron Swartz: Address at F2 C: Freedom to Connect Conference
This is a speech by Aaron Swartz "How We Stopped SOPA" delivered on May 21, 2012, at the Freedom to Connect Confence. He explains their efforts to stop the passage of the COICA: The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeit Act. It...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Ronald Reagan: Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate
This is Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down the Wall" speech delivered on June 12, 1987, at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin. It is offered in YouTube video, mp3 audio, and text. [4:52]
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Woodrow Wilson: The League of Nations
This is the text of Woodrow Wilson's speech explaining the content and purpose of The League of Nations.
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