Explain how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through rhetorical appeals and/or figurative language.
Reading
Reading Informational Text
- Purpose and Perspective
Explain how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through rhetorical appeals and/or figurative language.
Reading
Reading Informational Text
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Figurative language use that students will analyze are metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, meiosis (understatement), allusion, and idiom. Other examples can be used in instruction.
Students will explain the appropriateness of appeals in achieving a purpose. In this grade level, students are using and responsible for the appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos.
See Rhetorical Appeals and Rhetorical Devices.
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