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Rhetorical Devices - 30 Books and Teacher's Edition
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Build confident, persuasive student writers with the power of rhetorical techniques.
An excellent resource for AP* Language and Composition exam practice as well as Common Core classrooms, Rhetorical Devices gives your high school students the tools they need to make lively arguments that really pack a punch.
This manual for student writers goes further than other books that simply show how to identify literary techniques. Rhetorical Devices offers an in-depth study of 33 different rhetorical devices and literary techniques, including explanations of the devices, exercises on identifying and using them, and more.
Students will learn to accurately identify and evaluate the effectiveness of rhetorical devices in not only famous speeches, advertisements, political campaigns, and literature, but also in the blog, social media, and news articles they read in their daily lives.
As they work through the exercises in the program, students will improve their own writing process, strategy, style, and organization by correctly and skillfully using the devices they learn.
Rhetorical Devices includes lessons on:
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Allusion
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Antithesis
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Hyperbole
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Metaphor
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Personification
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Simile
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And 27 more!
“The book is very user friendly with specific instructions and covers a wide range of common as well as more obscure rhetorical devices. I use it in 11th-grade AP, but also with vertical teaming for 9th- and 10th-grade pre-AP classes.”
K. McElhiney
English Language Arts Educator
Take a closer look at the Rhetorical Devices writing program.
What is rhetoric?
Rhetoric is the skill of using literary techniques and language to make messages clear, convincing, or powerful. People use rhetoric when they want to persuade others, explain ideas, or make their writing or speaking more interesting.
How will studying rhetoric improve my students’ writing?
Your students are probably already using many of the devices in this writing program without realizing it. But strong writers don’t depend on luck to sound clever or organized. By closely studying the devices in this book, your students will gain the tools they need to be intentionally and consistently skillful writers.
How is Rhetorical Devices organized?
The student workbook splits the devices into four categories:
Strategy: devices that help the writer decide how to approach their reader. Examples include understatement, metaphor, and allusion.
Organization: devices that improve the flow of information and the arrangement of sentences and paragraphs. Examples include parallelism, enumeratio, and apostrophe.
Style: devices that help the writer share their personality and attitudes toward the subject and the reader. Examples include zeugma, epithet, and hyperbaton.
Analysis: devices that help the reader better examine what they read. Examples include personification, amplification, and parataxis.
What are the exercises in Rhetorical Devices like?
Exercises range from evaluating real-world examples of rhetorical devices in newspapers, magazines, and blogs; to studying how devices are used effectively in famous speeches, advertisements, political campaigns, and literature; to students creating their own examples.
Every exercise emphasizes the students’ use of the device to make their writing better, not simply naming and defining the device or spotting it in a passage.
Which student grade level is this book best suited for?
The activities in this book are appropriate for students anywhere from 9th to 12th grade who are ready to move beyond basic grammar and mechanics.
Students enrolled in AP* Language and Composition and other advanced or college-level English language arts classes will especially benefit from this program.
Why should my class use this book?
Although most large-scale, standardized assessments don’t test rhetoric directly, almost all tests with a writing section require a working knowledge of rhetoric if a student wants to earn a high score on the essay.
Knowing how to intentionally use rhetorical devices separates acceptable writing from truly excellent writing, helping all college-bound students both make it into higher education and succeed academically when they get there.
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