Rhetorical Appeals and Techniques

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Across
  1. 3. vivid use of descriptive details to help the reader imagine a scenario
  2. 6. placing two opposing elements side by side to create an effect
  3. 7. appeal to logic and reason
  4. 11. stating two contradictory ideas for an effect
  5. 12. an implied comparison of unlike items
  6. 13. appeal to emotions
  7. 14. appeal to authority and the reader's belief and trust in the speaker
  8. 15. the speaker's attitude toward the subject
Down
  1. 1. the author's choice of words to create an effect
  2. 2. reference to well-known person, place, or historical event
  3. 4. a question that is asked for effect rather than to be answered
  4. 5. a series of items in a sentence written in the same grammatical format
  5. 8. a comparison of unlike items using like or as
  6. 9. the repetition of words at the end of a line
  7. 10. the repetition of words at the beginning of a line