Rhetorical strategies are techniques used by writers and speakers to persuade their audience or convey a particular message. These strategies can be used to make a message more engaging and persuasive, and they can be used in both written and spoken communication. Here are some commonly used rhetorical strategies:
- Alliteration: The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of multiple words in a phrase or sentence.
- Amplification: Repeating a word or phrase while adding more detail to it, in order to emphasize its importance or significance.
- Anacoluthon: Intentionally breaking off a sentence and starting a new one, often for dramatic effect.
- Anadiplosis: Repeating the last word of a sentence or phrase at the beginning of the next sentence or phrase.
- Antanagoge: Balancing a negative with a positive, in order to make a point or lessen the impact of criticism.
- Apophasis: Mentioning something by saying that you will not mention it, in order to draw attention to it.
- Chiasmus: Repeating a phrase in reverse order, in order to create a rhetorical effect.
Other rhetorical strategies include analyzing cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, classifying and dividing, defining, describing, explaining a process, and narrating. Rhetorical strategies can be used to persuade an audience to consider the authors point of view, and they generally fall into three categories: logos (intellectual persuasion), pathos (persuading through emotions), and ethos (persuasion through credibility) .
In summary, rhetorical strategies are communication tools used to affect the reader or listener in an intended manner. They can be used to persuade, convey a particular message, or make a message more engaging and persuasive.
