Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a perspective, using language designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action.
Pages in category "Persuasion techniques" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
With the plain folks device, the propagandist can win the confidence of persons who resent or distrust foreign sounding, intellectual speech, words, or mannerisms." [19] For example, a politician speaking to a Southern United States crowd might incorporate words such as "Y'all" and other colloquialisms to create a perception of belonging.
48. Persuasive Techniques; 49. Make a Deal with Yourself; 50. Styles of Communication; 51. Planning a Presentation; 52. Making a Presentation; 53. Making Your Point; 54. Making it Come Alive; 55. Making Something New; 56. One Thing Leads to Another; 57. A Matter of Time; 58. There's Always a Risk; 59. Hanging in There; 60. Plan a City of the Future
Persuasive definition; Pinkwashing (LGBTQ) Plain folks; Playing the victim; Politainment; Political warfare; Potemkin village; Pretext; Pro-war rhetoric; Project for Good Information; Propaganda of the deed; Psychological warfare; Puffery
Captatio benevolentiae – any literary or oral device that seeks to secure the goodwill of the recipient or hearer, as in a letter or in a discussion. Catachresis – the inexact use of a similar word in place of the proper one to create an unlikely metaphor; for example (from Rhetorica ad Herennium ), "The power of man is short" or "the long ...
Kids may no longer be allowed to whip out cellphones to type essays, operate calculators, make videos or text their parents from school starting this school year in some parts of the U.S.
These include ethos, pathos, and logos, all three of which appear in Aristotle's Rhetoric. [1] Together with those three modes of persuasion, there is also a fourth term called Kairos (Ancient Greek: καιρός), which is related to the “moment” that the speech is going to be held. [2]