Rhetorical Devices & Persuasive Techniques

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Across
  1. 4. a type of repetition in which words or phrases in parallel structure connect ideas
  2. 7. references to events, figures, or phrases from another source, most often the Bible
  3. 8. the speaker of "Speech in Virginia Convention"
  4. 12. an appeal to ethics, credibility
  5. 13. giving human like characteristics to an inanimate object
  6. 16. figurative language in which the author gives vivid details using the five senses
Down
  1. 1. the speakers of "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God"
  2. 2. an appeal to emotion, desires
  3. 3. figurative language and example to make ideas more understandable
  4. 5. expresses contrasting ideas in parallel structure
  5. 6. a direct comparison between two unlike things
  6. 9. Question a question to which no answer is expected
  7. 10. the speaker of the speech in reply to the Boston Emissary
  8. 11. an appeal to logic, statistics, facts
  9. 14. a comparison using like or as
  10. 15. the purposeful recurrence of words, phrases, or lines