Georgia 10.T.SS.2.b
The Standard
Use literary devices, figurative language, rhetorical language, and/or rhetorical appeals to create a variety of effects, as appropriate to intended purpose and target audience. (C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Structure & Style
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students make intentional language choices to shape how readers think, feel, or respond. They use imagery, metaphor, repetition, parallel structure, credibility, emotion, and logic. They match each choice to a clear purpose and audience.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can write different versions of the same message for different readers. Each version uses well-chosen techniques that support the goal rather than distract from it. The student can explain the effect of specific words or patterns.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often add a metaphor or repeated phrase only to meet a requirement, even when it clashes with the tone. They may confuse emotional language with evidence, treat credibility as self-praise, or name a technique without creating its effect. Mixed metaphors and an audience mismatch are also common.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Write a four-sentence appeal to the school board supporting a later start time. Use one figurative device and one persuasive method, then label each and state its intended effect.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups image, audience, and purpose cards; each group draws one of each and creates a six-line pitch using two deliberate techniques.
Read two versions of the same claim, then discuss which words build trust, stir emotion, or sharpen the logic for each audience.
Play Rhetorical Remix: teams revise a bland sentence with metaphor, repetition, or parallel structure, then classmates name the intended effect.
Bring in a public service poster; students identify its audience, then rewrite its slogan for teenagers, parents, and city officials.
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