American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Address to the Un on Climate Change
This is the text and audio of Arnold Schwarzenegger's address to the United Nations General Assembly on climate change on September 24, 2007.
Virtual Salt
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices: Analogy
Defines analogy. Also explains the reasoning behind the multiple levels of comparisons within an analogy. Includes examples and quotes from famous authors.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: Puritan Rhetoric: The Jeremiad and the Conversion Narrative
Defines and describes a major form of Puritan writing, the jeremiad. Provides an outline of the jeremiad literary structure. Includes information on conversion narratives.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Strategies for Active Reading
This lesson focuses on strategies for active reading such as annotating your texts, reading multiple times, and using your prior knowledge.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Intro to Vocabulary Building Reading Strategies
This article explains in general how to build vocabulary using reading strategies such as context clues.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Context Clues
This lesson focuses on using context clues to determine word meanings while reading including synonym, definition, example, contrast, experience, or adjacent clues. L.11-12.4d Verify meaning
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Retain New Words
This activity focuses on strategies to retain new words such as reading voraciously, use a good dictionary and thesaurus, use new words, and learn a new word every day. It also provides an annotated biography of resource material.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Diversify Your Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on strategies to diversify and retain new vocabularies such as reading a variety of types of writing and learning roots, suffixes, prefixes, and the etymology of words.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Anita Hill: Senate Judiciary Testimony on Clarence Thomas
This is the text, audio, and video [1:44] of Anita Hill's testimony on Clarence Thomas in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 11, 1991.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Ashton Carter: Worldwide Troop Talk: Defense Media Activity
This is the text, audio, and video [1:11:18] of the Defense Media Activity's "Worldwide Troop Talk" with Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter on September 1, 2015, in Fort Mead, Maryland.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Ashton Carter: Drell Lecture on Innovation and Cybersecurity
This is the text, audio, and video [40:52] of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter's Drell Lecture on innovation and cybersecurity delivered on April 23, 2015, at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Attallah Shabazz: Remarks at Funeral for Coretta Scott King
This is the text and audio of Attallah Shabazz's remarks at the funeral of Coretta Scott King on February 7, 2006, at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
This is the text, audio, and video [3:08] of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration of war against the Japanese the day after their attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Lyndon Baines Johnson: "We Shall Overcome" Congress Address
This is the text and audio of President Lyndon Baines Johnson addressing a Joint Session of Congress on voting legislation on March 15, 1965 in Washington D.C.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Robert F. Kennedy: Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is the text, audio, and video [1:47] of Robert F. Kennedy's speech to the nation concerning the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; it was delivered on April 4, 1968, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Ashton Carter: Sasc Statement on Counter Isil Campaign
This is the text, audio, and video [12:35] of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter's address to Senate Armed Services Committee on the Counter-ISIL Campaign on October 28, 2015.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Visual Rhetoric: Using Fonts With Purpose
The first of four pages discussing appropriate font choices and the effect font choice can have on the meaning and feeling attached to a work.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Satire
A good definition of satire, with links to related definitions and literary terms.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Irony
Definition of "irony" and a discussion of the three types: verbal, dramatic, and cosmic.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Heroic Couplets
A short definition of the term Heroic Couplet along with a short example from a piece of poetry from Pope's Essay on Criticism.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language
A lesson plan focusing on the power of Iago's language, as shown through his crafty deception of Othello, "Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language" provides several links to information on Shakespeare, Othello, and rhetoric.
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Pressbooks: Virginia Western Community College: Let's Get Writing!
This is an open textbook created to assist students in their writing efforts. Topics covered include critical reading, rhetorical analysis, writing arguments, steps in the writing process, rhetorical modes, using credible sources, citing...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:american Literature and Comp: Rationalism:thomas Paine
This lesson focuses on Thomas Paine including his background, writings, and political career. A link to "The Crisis No. 1" by Thomas Paine is provided; students are to read it and underline examples of rhetoric. There is also a quiz over...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Augustan Age 1689 1745
This lesson focuses on the Augustan Age and Alexander Pope, who coined the term. It featues links to a Pope biography, "The Rape of the Lock," text, notes and questions, and "The Rhetorical Organization of the Neoclassical Couplet."
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