Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for Secondary ELA

Increase student understanding with hands-on and engaging rhetorical analysis resources. This analysis unit includes many rhetoric resources including complete lessons and activities.

Rhetorical Analysis with Sticky Notes

This lesson includes:

• an editable, 87-slide PowerPoint for teaching rhetorical analysis (with definitions and examples)
• 18 rhetorical analysis organizers
• 9 writing prompts with outlines
• 2 grading rubrics
• teacher instructions
• a sample week lesson plan
• three included speeches
• suggested speeches for further instruction

The PowerPoint includes these teachable slides:

• rhetoric
• SOAPStone
• speaker
• occasion
• audience
• purpose
• tone
• tone words
• diction
• connotation
• denotation
• the rhetorical triangle
• ethos
• pathos
• logos
• rhetorical tropes
• rhetorical schemes
• allusion
• apostrophe
• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• oxymoron
• rhetorical question
• parallel structure
• juxtaposition
• asyndeton
• polysyndeton
• anadiplosis
• anaphora
• chiasmus

Rhetorical Analysis Speeches and Units

The Gettysburg Address

MLK Jr.’s I Have a Dream Speech

9/11 Address to the Nation