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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay using effective rhetorical devices and transitions.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn to analyze persuasive speeches and examine the impact of rhetorical structure and the use of devices in famous speeches. It includes activities such as matching quotes from famous speeches to the speakers...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Rhetorical Landscape: Rhetoric

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on rhetoric; it defines it, discusses rhetorical devices, and audience appeals. It includes a student assignment to read "Tear Down This Wall" a speech by Ronald Reagan and then use the comment feature in Microsoft...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Rationalism: Rhetoric

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Rhetoric and the literary techniques used in American Revolutionary speeches and writings. Students are asked to determine the rhetorical devices used in quotes from "The Crisis No 1" by Thomas Paine and Patrick...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn to analyze persuasive speeches, those that are intended to sway the audience to agree with the speaker. You will examine the impact of rhetorical structure and the use of devices in famous speeches.
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University of Kentucky

Kentucky Classics: A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms With Examples

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Rhetorical Devices and Historically Significant Speeches

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Rhetorical Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a unit on the use of rhetoric in speaking or writing to persuade an audience to the desired way of thinking or action. If focuses on rhetorical techniques and the three audience appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Hypophora

For Students 9th - 10th
A six-slide presentation introducing hypophora and explaining its use as a rhetorical device.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Understatement

For Students 9th - 10th
A four-slide document introducing understatement and explaining how it can be used as a rhetorical device.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Hyperbole

For Students 9th - 10th
A five-slide presentation introducing hyperbole and explaining its use as a rhetorical device.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Rhetorical Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on rhetorical context including defining it, questions to ask to understand it, and how it can be useful to the reader and responder.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Practice: Rhetorical Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a practice activity to see if students can identify the writer's rhetorical context.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rhetorical Analysis of "So This Was Adolescence"

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This PDF lesson plan prepares students for multiple portions of the AP Language and Composition exam (specifically, the multiple choice section and the rhetorical analysis prompt) by analyzing a brief text which students will be able to...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rhetorical Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson gives an overview of rhetorical strategies.
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Virtual Salt

Handbook of Rhetorical Devices: Analogy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Defines analogy. Also explains the reasoning behind the multiple levels of comparisons within an analogy. Includes examples and quotes from famous authors.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Hypophora

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces hypophora as a rhetorical device. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Other

Julius Caesar: Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides examples of how literary devices are used in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Looks at irony, motifs, themes, symbols, and how language is used.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Contemplation and Argumentation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided unit, you will read Romantic and Transcendental literature and you will practice the art of persuasion using rhetorical devices, appeals, and refutation while avoiding logical fallacies. By the end of the unit, you...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Chiasmus

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces chiasmus as a rhetorical device.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understatement/overstatement (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students to recognize hyperbole and understatement as literary devices in five modules: Introduction, Recognizing Hyperbole and Understanding Its Purpose, Identifying Hyperbole in Poetry, Recognizing...
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University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: Rhetorical Devices" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze the persuasive impact of rhetorical structures and devices in famous speeches.

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