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On today’s rhetorical devices test, was it easier to recognize devices from their definitions or identify them in quotations? Explain why, and discuss a device that challenged you, if any. What did this experience reveal about how well your study habits prepared you?

Prompt:  On today’s rhetorical devices test, was it easier to recognize devices from their definitions or identify them in quotations? Explain why, and discuss a device that challenged you, if any. What did this experience reveal about how well your study habits prepared you? Prompt: I think it might be easier for me to recognize devices from their definitions than to identify them from quotations because I remember the definitions since I wrote them down in my notebook. Identifying them would require more knowledge of how they're used. A device that might challenge me is antithesis because I find it the hardest to come up with examples of. This reveals that my study habits help me remember definitions, but maybe not actual uses. Summary: In class today, we took the rhetorical devices test. Reflection: It's weird that I'm writing the blog post before taking the test.
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Think about a speech, song, or message that has inspired or motivated you. How did the speaker or writer use language to make an impact? Connect your experience to at least one rhetorical device you identified in Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

Prompt:  Think about a speech, song, or message that has inspired or motivated you. How did the speaker or writer use language to make an impact? Connect your experience to at least one rhetorical device you identified in Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Prompt Response: A message that has motivated me is "Strike first, strike hard, no mercy" from Cobra Kai. The speaker, Johnny Lawrence, uses similar language in all three statements to drive the motto into the students. This phrase has helped me because, even if it looks like I'm going to win something for sure, I know it's not over until it's over, so I never stop trying. For example, in my lacrosse game last weekend, we didn't stop playing at halftime when we were winning 7-0. This connects to Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech because he uses repetition when he says, "We will never be satisfied until...," which is similar to how I never stop until something is over....
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Think of a fictional character, celebrity, or historical figure you can relate to. Create an allusion that connects your personality or experiences to that person. Explain why you chose that reference.

Prompt:  Think of a fictional character, celebrity, or historical figure you can relate to. Create an allusion that connects your personality or experiences to that person. Explain why you chose that reference. Prompt Response: A fictional character that I can relate to is Scooby-doo. Scooby and I are both curious about the world and like to solve mysteries. Like Scooby, I often find myself in troubling situations but tend to see the bright side of them and be optimistic. Additionally, we both have friends that we can count on, so when I say "Ruh Roh," I know I'll have someone to help me. I chose to reference Scooby through his catchphrase "Ruh Roh" because that's what he says when he's in trouble, and it's well known. Most people will know that when Scooby says "Ruh Roh," he is asking Shaggy, his friend, to help him out of a sticky situation. Summary: Today in class, we learned about rhetorical analysis and connotation and denotation. Ref...
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Think about a time when someone challenged your opinion or told you that you were wrong. What was the disagreement about, and how did you defend yourself? Did you change their mind, or did they change yours?

Prompt:  Think about a time when someone challenged your opinion or told you that you were wrong. What was the disagreement about, and how did you defend yourself? Did you change their mind, or did they change yours? Prompt Response: A time when someone told me that I was wrong was today, when Dante told me my answer to one of the questions on our AP Lang assignment was wrong. To settle the disagreement, we both reread the passage. Then we showed each other why we thought our answers were right or why the other person's were wrong. I ended up changing Dante's mind, and we chose my answer. Summary: Today in class, we learned the vocabulary words from section 4 of the textbook. Reflection: I've heard many of the vocabulary words we learned today, but I didn't know what they meant.
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Have you ever worried about what others think of you? How did it affect your actions or decisions? Share a personal experience and use hypophora at least once in your response.

Prompt:  Have you ever worried about what others think of you? How did it affect your actions or decisions? Share a personal experience and use hypophora at least once in your response. Prompt Response: Of course I have worried about what others though of me, especially when I was younger. In middle school it affected the way I dressed and carried myself. Now I don't really care what others think of me, except for my close friends, because how other people feel about me doesn't affect me. Will it matter what high school classmates thought of your wardrobe 10 years from now? No it won't. Summary: Today in class we learned procatalepsis and distinctio. Reflection: Distinctio is very powerful because how an issue or word is framed or defined can change the entire meaning of an argument.
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Consider the following statement: "We spend more time connecting online but less time connecting in person." Do you agree or disagree with this antithesis? Explain your perspective using personal experiences. Discuss how technology has influenced the way people communicate and build relationships. In your response, include at least one original example of antithesis.

Prompt:  Consider the following statement: "We spend more time connecting online but less time connecting in person." Do you agree or disagree with this antithesis? Explain your perspective using personal experiences. Discuss how technology has influenced the way people communicate and build relationships. In your response, include at least one original example of antithesis. Prompt Response: I agree with this antithesis. I think as a whole, people spend more time connecting with others on social media or over the phone than face to face. I connect with more people in person, but most of the people I know spend more time connecting online. Technology has influenced the way people communicate and build relationships by making communication more readily available but relationships more shallow as it's more difficult to relate online than in person. We communicate more than over, but connect less than ever. Summary:  In class today, we began looking at questioninary rhetori...
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Think about a time when you exaggerated something to make a point, tell a story, or get someone's attention. What happened? What did you say? Why did you exaggerate? Looking back, do you think your exaggeration made your message more effective? Explain.

Prompt:  Think about a time when you exaggerated something to make a point, tell a story, or get someone's attention. What happened? What did you say? Why did you exaggerate? Looking back, do you think your exaggeration made your message more effective? Explain. Prompt Response: A time when I exaggerated something to make a point was last Saturday when I was playing my friend in ping pong. After beating him 6-0 in a quick match, I told him he was the worst player I've ever seen. I exaggerated how bad he was because I wanted to mess with him. Looking back, I think my exaggeration conveyed my message effectively because I wanted to mess with him and make him mad by telling him how bad he was at ping pong, even though we are around the same skill level. It worked and he did get mad. Summary: Today in class, we learned about hyperbole, understatements, and litotes. Reflection: I didn't know I was already using these rhetorical devices everyday.
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