University of Virginia Library
Prism: "Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: Rhetorical Devices" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address. Details that show ethos are blue while details that show logos are red, and details that show pathos are green. Click on any...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Movie Speech: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
A photograph, an audio mp3, and a transcript of Atticus Finch's monologue as he delivers the closing arguments in Tom Robinson's trial in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Genre
Brief definition of the literary term.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Personification
Brief definition of personification with links to related terms, allegory and apostrophe.
Other
Presidential Rhetoric: George W. Bush: Energy Policy
President George W. Bush discusses his energy policy, American's dependence on oil and alternative fuel in this April, 2006, speech.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass and American Non Fiction
This lesson plan serves as an introduction to American literary non-fiction writing and focuses primarily on teaching some basic approaches to recognizing rhetorical strategies adopted for persuasive effect in essays and non-fiction. The...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Style Effectively
This lesson focuses on rhetorical devices and how to use them effectively in public speaking. These include alliteration, antithesis, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition and parallelism, and simile and metaphor.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 10th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on what grammar 10th graders need to know to be successful in the upper grades and college. These include the following: parts of speech, sentence structure/syntax, types of sentences, types of clauses, parallelism,...
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Dover Adult Learning Center: Pick Your Candidate [Pdf]
This document from the Dover Adult Learning Center is a nice resource for any beginners in the political decision-making process. Provides links to material to help decipher ads, candidate speeches, rhetorical tricks, campaign issues,...
Franco Cavazzi
The Roman Empire: Roman Education
This section from The Roman Empire explains the education system and how boys and girls were schooled. It discusses the school year, the curriculum, and rhetoric.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Language, Word Play and Text
Prose and verse, wordplay, neologisms, and rhetoric: discover how Shakespeare and Renaissance writers developed innovative and experimental uses of language.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Gulliver's Travels
Learners continue to learn that people use the written word to express their thoughts and ideas about social issues and attempt to persuade others to do the same. They will explore advanced rhetorical devices, including satire and...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Understatement
This is an encyclopedia entry for the word "Understatement." It defines the term, provides background information about it, and offers references.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Costume of the Allegorical Figure "Rhetoric"
An image of "Costume of the allegorical figure "Rhetoric"", created by Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1585 (Pen, blue wash on white paper, 304 x 205 mm).
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Notes on the State of Virginia
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read the complete text of Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia" and highlight rhetoric in blue, orientalism in red, and social Darwinism in green. When finished, click save to see how...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Gettysburg Address
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students analyze historical speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King to find rhetorical devices and features that make these speeches memorable.
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Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: From Courage to Freedom:frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
In this 3-lesson plan unit, students will read Douglass's narrative. They will analyze Douglass's vivid first-hand accounts of the lives of slaves and the behavior of slave owners to see how he successfully contrasts reality with...
US National Archives
Docs Teach: President Reagan and the Cold War: Vision and Diplomacy
See how Ronald Reagan's rhetoric evolved from his speech calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" to his signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by examining photographs and documents.
Stanford University
Soren Kierkegaard, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A thorough and complete biography. Includes sections on Kierkegaard's life, rhetoric, ethics, politics, and religion, just to name a few. Also contains a time-line and bibliography of works.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Write an Expository And/or Procedural Text (English 6 Writing)
You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text with a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, transitions, appropriate facts, and details.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing to a Particular Audience and Purpose English Iii Writing
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn various rhetorical strategies you can use in writing for a particular audience and purpose.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
This multi-session lesson features the opportunity to analyze a variety of famous speeches. Students will look carefully at tone, rhetoric, propaganda techniques, and historical context as they write an analysis paper....
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: Captivity Narratives
This site contains definitions and analysis of American captivity narratives. Describes the conventions, rhetorical purposes, and themes of the captivity narrative genre. Lists example captivity narratives.
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