Directions: Read the passage. Each bolded excerpt represents a rhetorical device or example of figurative language from the chart below. Paste the sentence that uses the technique, then explain why the technique was used. Be sure to answer in a complete sentence and use your best writing skills. An example has been filled in for you. Please note: some techniques are used more than once in the excerpt.
Rhetorical Device, Appeal or Figurative Language
Paste the sentence from the closing arguments that is an example of the rhetorical device, appeal, or figurative language
In one sentence, explain why the rhetorical appeal, device, or figurative language was used. What is the effect? How does it serve the purpose?

pathos

We are gathered on this final day of the trial to make sense of Careless Construction’s utter disregard for wildlife.
This example would make the jury feel angry about the construction company’s carelessness.

logos




pathos




ethos




irony




rhetorical question




alliteration




allusion




hyperbole




personification




simile