Curated OER
Rhetorical Terms
Students explore online audio examples taken from public speeches, movies, songs, lectures, oral interpretations of literature and other media events to find uses for specific rhetorical terms. This lesson includes a video of...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notorious Confusables
Great site! Offers student tons of confusables! Also offers quizzes and a pull-down menu for one "confusable" at a time. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2, L.11-12.2b Spelling, L.11-12.4 Word Meanings
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Speech: Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion
This is a complete unit on rhetoric and persuasion including key words, what to expect, handouts, lessons, self-quizzes, audio and speaking assignments, and an in-depth final assessment using JFK's Inaugural Address with a grading...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Site Search
This is the search engine for American Rhetoric, a site that offers thousands of primary source speeches. Just type in the name of the speech or the speaker and select from the choices.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Comp: Rationalism: Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on the literary terms needed for the unit on Rationalism. I provides a list of terms and a crossword puzzle using them.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Rhetorical Landscape: Rhetoric
This lesson focuses on rhetoric; it defines it, discusses rhetorical devices, and audience appeals. It includes a student assignment to read "Tear Down This Wall" a speech by Ronald Reagan and then use the comment feature in Microsoft...
Stanford University
Informal Logic/stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Describes the recent movement known as "informal logic." Summarizes its brief history, provides several detailed examples, and explains its relationship to philosophy. Bibliography included.
Stanford University
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Stoic Logic
An extensive discussion of the Stoic beliefs about logic, their advancements in the field of logic, the arguments of the Skeptics and the answers of the Stoics
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices
In this lesson, you will learn to analyze persuasive speeches and examine the impact of rhetorical structure and the use of devices in famous speeches. It includes activities such as matching quotes from famous speeches to the speakers...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Rhetoric & the Story of Corax vs. Tisias
After reading the arugments of each of two lawyers in court, decide who wins.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Scholarly Definitions of Rhetoric
This is collection of scholars' definitions of rhetoric; these include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Francis Bacon, Henry Ward Beecher and many more.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Selected Moments From Aristotle's Rhetoric
This is a collection of excerpts from Aristole's Rhetoric.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Selected Moments From Plato's Gorgias
This is excerpt from Plato's Gorgias which illustrates the Socratic (Q&A) Method of Division and Classification and claims about rhetoric.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Rhetorical Landscape
This is an introduction to a unit on the use of rhetoric in speaking or writing to persuade an audience to the desired way of thinking or action. If focuses on rhetorical techniques and the three audience appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Identifying Rhetorical Devices in Arguments to Aid Understanding
This lesson focuses on the expression of ideas, the stylistic choices writers make. Because the range of choices is so broad, the activities in the lesson will focus on DDIST: (Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, Tone) to help you remember...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Contemplation and Argumentation
In this self-guided unit, you will read Romantic and Transcendental literature and you will practice the art of persuasion using rhetorical devices, appeals, and refutation while avoiding logical fallacies. By the end of the unit, you...
University of Maryland
Voices of Democracy: John F. Kennedy, "Address: "The President and Press" 1961
Read President John F. Kennedy's speech, "The President and the Press," which he delivered before the American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA) on April 27, 1961. In this speech, he attempted to explain and justify the Bay of Pigs...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Plato's Apology
Here is one of the finest examples of classical rhetoric, in translation by Benjamin Jowett.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Rhetoric
This site from the Internet Classics Archive provides the full text of Aristotle's "Rhetoric"; translated by W. Rhys Roberts.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: John Skelton
This site is the Wikipedia encyclopedia entry for the British poet John Skelton (1460-1529 CE). The page has numerous in-text links to other pertinent information.
Other
So just.net: Historic Speeches
This site from EdChange.org gives the speeches of many American speakers on various topics related to social justice.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Hypophora
This lesson introduces hypophora as a rhetorical device. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University: Forest of Rhetoric
This site is provided for by the Brigham Young University. Almost anything you would want to know about rhetoric and speech is here with great examples and explanations. Intended for a college-level audience, but plenty for younger...
Other
Julius Caesar: Literary Devices
Provides examples of how literary devices are used in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Looks at irony, motifs, themes, symbols, and how language is used.