Rant: Devices and Techniques

Class Outline

1. Silent Reading
2. In groups of 2 or 3, watch a few examples of Rick Mercer's Rants from Youtube.
3. As you watch and after each film, brainstorm with your group all the things he says and does to argue his point and convince his viewers. 
4. With your group, you will be given a rant and a list of devices. Watch the rant and come up with a hypothesis as to what the definition of each device might be, and what one example of that device is in the rant.

Videos

Pandas

• Appeal to authority
• Allusion
• Declarative Sentences
• Hyperbole
• Irony
• Sarcasm
• Sentence Fragment
• Tone

Scientists Muzzled Again

• Allusion
• Anecdote
• Imperative Sentences
• Interrogative Sentences
• Irony
• Sarcasm
• Sentence Fragment
•  Simile

Relapse/Question Period

• Allusion
• Anecdote
• Exclamatory Sentences
• Interrogative Sentences
• Irony
•  Rhetorical questioning
• Sentence Fragment
• Tone

Teen Suicide

• Allusion
• Anecdote
•  Exclamatory Sentences
• Imperative Sentences
• Interrogative Sentences
• Repetition
• Simile
• Tone

Snow Day

• Anecdote
• Exclamatory Sentences
• Hyperbole
• Imperative Sentences
• Interrogative Sentences
• Rhetorical questioning
• Slang
• Tone

        

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