Politics and Rhetoric

•How did the essay go? •How did the letter go?

•Plans for this unit include: •Analyzing political speeches to determine what the

candidates are saying and how their messages change•Creating your own speech and presenting it in LD

debate format•Introductions and conclusions for speeches

Take out the persuasive packet handout from last class

• Review terms and experiences with rhetoric: media, personal life and family.

• Which was included in the Stalin speech?

• Get out spiral notebook. More terms and review

Rhetorical Devices and Examples

Sounds Structure Structure II

Emotional

Visual/Imagery

Alliteration Anaphora Hyperbole Rhetorical Question

Allusion

Emphasis

Repetition

Climax Paradox Appeal to: emotionauthoritylogic

Simile

Cliche

Diction Expletive Parallelism Claims Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

Antithesis Synecdoche Connotation Analogy

Colloquialism Flashback/Foreshadow

Concrete/Abstract

JuxtapositionAnalogyAllusion (they’re all in this)

Personification

Styles of PropagandaBandwagon

Name calling

Lesser of two Evils

Rewards

Plain folks Testimonial Simplification

Assertion

Demonizing the oppositionwhat others?

Fear

Appeal to authority

Glittering generalities

Transfer

Opposites

Definitions

Celebrity Spokesperson

Euphemisims

Card-stacking

Music

Video

Logical Fallacies: errors in reasoning 1 of 2

Ad hominem: attacking a person’s ideas by discrediting him as a person

Arguing from analogy: comparing only similarities among two things while ignoring the differences which would weaken the argument

Begging the question:This fallacy consists of assuming in a definition or in the premises of your argument the very point you are trying to prove. In other words, the claim itself is used to prove itself.

Either or reasoning: Either you brush your teeth daily or your teeth will fall out!

Logical Fallacies: errors in reasoning 2 of 2

Non sequiturHasty generalizationOversimplificationDeductive fallacies and what else?Straw man here is another example

• Celebrity Endorsements

• Huckabee

• 1940s Devices haven’t changed, has the content?