Ding Ding Ding… I have an announcement

Ding Ding Ding… I have an announcement

Ding- *breaks champagne glass with butter knife*

*crowd turns around*

“Hello! Yes, may I have your attention? Have any of you got a second to talk about Rhetorical Terms, our modern day English savior?”

I know I am hilarious, actually. But no time for that, we shall take a moment to speak about the importance of using specific rhetorical terms within an essay. WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME PEOPLE! So pretty much, if you start talking about the terms within your essay, the audience may not know what you are talking about. (Literally happens to me all the time, but not with essays, just me trying to socialize in general.) So to avoid that, I am giving you the great gift of examples of rhetorical terms you could use, as your savior. They go as follows: piecemeal, open-ended closure, diction, compare and contrast, and rhetorical gazes. Piecemeal is the way the author gathers any information from different sources and compiles it into a story or essay they want to present. Open-ended closure is when the author leaves the end of the story open, so that they can go back and have a place to start back from; (SEQUAL SAY WHAT!?), they leave a cliff hanger; so John Green can write a sequel to Paper Towns already. Diction is the author’s choice of words; using “the man approached the puppy” instead of “the man came up to the dog.” This gives the author the opportunity to say what he wants to convey, persuade, or grab and hold the attention of the audience. Compare and contrast is used by the author to show the similarities and differences that one can find within an idea or an image. Finally the author can use rhetorical gazes to appeal to the reader’s emotion, and pride. When using images, the author can make the audience relate to what is in front of them, they connect with the images that are described within the essay.