Persuasive Speech about one figure of speech and one rhetorical logical fallacy

You will be assigned one figure of speech and one rhetorical/logical fallacy. Write a presentation for each of them. Your target readers are undergraduate university students of Media Literacy. Those students want to understand what makes a figure of speech effective and what makes a rhetorical/ logical fallacy deceptive in a given text. Please read with attention the following guidelines:

For the presentation of the figure of speech:

Provide a definition of the figure of speech that you have been assigned, citing the Oxford English Dictionary or another academic source (the definition must be a paraphrase of the direct entry).

Find a specific instance of the use of the figure of speech in a media text.

Drawing on one or two academic references, explain:

• what makes the figure of speech effective;
• in which media context this is occurring; and
• what result/s are likely achieved by its effective use.

For the presentation of the rhetorical/logical fallacy:

Provide a definition of the rhetorical fallacy that you have been assigned, citing one/two academic texts (the definition must be a paraphrase of a direct entry). Find a specific instance of the use of the figure of speech/logical fallacy in a media text.

Drawing on one or two academic references, explain:

• what makes the rhetorical/logical fallacy deceptive;
• in which media contexts this is occurring; and
• what effect/s the use of the fallacy might have.

You will be randomly assigned the following figure of speech:

Antithesis

You will be randomly assigned the following rhetorical and logical fallacies:

Appeal to consequences