1. Do Now:
What is your favorite college?
Write three reasons someone should go to that college.
What are the school colors?

2. June 12th Objective:
Define and describe a variety of stylistic
persuasive techniques (repetition, sentence
variety, understatement / overstatement)

3. What is your favorite comic strip or meme?

4. Key Terms
Rhetoric: the art of using language effectively
so as to persuade or influence others
Style: a manner of discourse, or tone of
speaking, adopted in writing, addressing
others, or in ordinary conversation
Persuasion: the addressing of arguments
or appeals to a person in order to induce
cooperation, submission, or agreement

5. Stylistic Persuasive Techniques
Sentence Under Over
Repetition
Variety statement statement

6. Stylistic Persuasive Techniques
Sentence Under Over
Repetition
Variety statement statement
saying
words or
phrases
over and
over again
for
emphasis

7. Stylistic Persuasive Techniques
Sentence Under Over
Repetition
Variety statement statement
using
different
sentence
structures
and lengths
to engage
an audience

8. Stylistic Persuasive Techniques
Sentence Under Over
Repetition
Variety statement statement
a
statement
which falls
below the
truth or
fact

9. Stylistic Persuasive Techniques
Sentence Under Over
Repetition
Variety statement statement
an
exaggeration;
a statement
which
exceeds the
limits of fact

10. Stylistic Persuasive Techniques
Sentence Under Over
Repetition
Variety statement statement
using different an
saying words
sentence a statement exaggeration;
or phrases
structures which falls a statement
over and over
and lengths to below the which
again for
engage an truth or fact exceeds the
emphasis
audience limits of fact

11. Make a Poster:
GROUP ONE: On your poster, write OVERSTATMENTS and
brainstorm a list of overstatements!
GROUP TWO: On your poster, write UNDERSTATEMENTS
and brainstorm a list of understatements!
GROUP THREE: On your poster, write REPETITION and a
very short story (3-4 sentences) using repetition.
GROUP FOUR: On your poster, write SENTENCE VARIETY
and a very short story (3-4 sentences) using sentence variety.
Make it pretty!

12. In 3-5 sentences, reflect on
what you learned today, what
was confusing, and
connections of this lesson to
other lessons/other content
areas/real world. You may
also reflect on your progress
as a student, what to do
differently next time, or what
you liked about the topic.

13. Fill In The Blank
1. _________ is a stylistic 2. _________ is a stylistic
technique that uses technique that uses
statements which fall exaggeration.
below the truth or fact.
A. overstatement
A. overstatement
B. understatement
B. understatement
C. repetition
C. repetition
D. sentence variety
D. sentence variety

14. 3. Which two stylistic
techniques does the
excerpt from President
Barack Obama’s 2008
acceptance speech
use?
4. BONUS: Which
rhetorical techniques
did you notice in
President Obama’s
speech?

15. … And tonight, I think about all that she’s seen throughout her century in America
- the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were
told that we cant, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes
we can.
At a time when women’s voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she
lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw
a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of
common purpose. Yes we can.
When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was
there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes
we can.
She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in
Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that We Shall Overcome.
Yes we can.
A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was
connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she
touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in
America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how
America can change. Yes we can. …

16. 3. Which two stylistic
techniques does the
excerpt from President
Barack Obama’s 2008
acceptance speech
use?
4. BONUS: Which
rhetorical techniques
did you notice in
President Obama’s
speech?

17. HOMEWORK:
Write a short speech (~1
paragraph) persuading your
audience to attend to your
favorite college. Use
sentence variety. Also, use
two of the following:
repetition, overstatement,
and/or understatement.

18. June 12th Objective:
Define and describe a variety of stylistic
persuasive techniques (repetition, sentence
variety, understatement / overstatement)

19. HOMEWORK:
Write a short speech (~1
paragraph) persuading your
audience to attend to your
favorite college. Use
sentence variety. Also, use
two of the following:
repetition, overstatement,
and/or understatement.