Useful Rhetorical Devices

Making someone believe what you want them to believe.

Making someone do what you want them to do.

Preventing someone from doing something that you don't want them to do.

Preventing someone from believing what you don't want them to believe.

Aristotle identified ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos as types of persuasion.

Aristotle was the inventor of rhetoric.

Aristotle identified ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos as challenges of persuasion.

Aristotle dedicated his life to persuading others that rhetoric was harmful.

emotion

timeliness

logic

trustworthiness

My single story of Fide was like trying to paint a realistic portrait with only one color.

She shouted "NO!" as stubbornly as a child in bed on the first day back to school.

Single stories are thorns pressed into the skin of those they stereotype.

She howled out her grievances, clawing wildly at the opponent's lawyer.

Where do you keep the pencil sharpener?

What's the equivalent of Grab delivery in India?

How does one calculate the square root of pi?

How can we call ourselves free when we are still enslaved?

slender

slim

scrawny

thin

We will fight on the beaches. We will fight on the hills. We will fight in the streets.

This government is of the people, for the people, by the people.

Patience, my friend. Waiting is the name of the game.

The rotund superintendent sat beside the K4 child, laying a massive hand on her tiny shoulder.

ethos

pathos

logos

kairos