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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the definition of a rhetorical device?A classic technique in presentation and speech making. It helps tie the theme together, and it creates clarity for the listener. Additionally, we remember words and phrases more readily when they are packaged in threes.appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.A series of techniques used to influence a listener, reader, or audience to believe a certain claimA reference to religion, mythology, historical events, pop culture, literature, etc - 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the persuasive technique known as ethos?A reference to religion, mythology, historical events, pop culture, literature, etcethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotionsappeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhat is allusion?A reference to religion, mythology, historical events, pop culture, literature, etc.The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words. ____________ is fun to say and enjoyable to hear, and it’s used to call attention to certain words.A rhetorical technique in which the writer emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form.A classic technique in presentation and speech making. It helps tie the theme together, and it creates clarity for the listener. Additionally, we remember words and phrases more readily when they are packaged in threes.
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat is pathos?appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotionsethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.appeal to one's social group or community
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat is alliteration?A reference to religion, mythology, historical events, pop culture, literature, etc.The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words. ____________ is fun to say and enjoyable to hear, and it’s used to call attention to certain words.A rhetorical technique in which the writer emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form.A classic technique in presentation and speech making. It helps tie the theme together, and it creates clarity for the listener. Additionally, we remember words and phrases more readily when they are packaged in threes.
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the persausive technique known as logos?appeal using a company's visual symbolappeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions
- 7. Multiple Choice
"And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.”
This is an example of
ethos and logos
simile and metaphor
personification and simile
alliteration and metaphor
- 8. Multiple Choice“I promised I would not say that she [Carly Fiorina] ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground, that she laid off tens of thousands of people and she got viciously fired. I said I will not say it, so I will not say it”...Presidential Nominee Donald Trump
This quote is an example oflogos, pathos, and ethosethos and logospathos and logosethos - 9. Multiple ChoiceHe was a Good Samaritan yesterday when he helped the lady start her car.
This sentence usesparallelism.alliteration.repetition.allusion. - 10. Multiple Choice
“I came, I saw, I conquered.” ...Julius Caesar
This quote's main rhetorical device in use is
parallelism
alliteration
simile
allusion
- 11. Multiple Choice
"We find ourselves rich in goods but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We're torn by division, wanting unity.”
Which two rhetorical devices are represented here.
allusion and repetition.
parallelism and alliteration
repetition and oxymoron
parallelism and juxtaposition
- 12. Multiple ChoiceChocolate was her Achilles’ heel.
Which rhetorical device is used to get the point across here?allusionalliterationrepetitionparallel structure - 13. Multiple Choice
“Sanitation engineer”
“Pre-owned vehicle”
“Economically disadvantaged”
Name the rhetorical device these are examples of.
euphemism
oxymoron
allusion
juxtaposition
- 14. Multiple Choice
Original copy
Disgustingly delicious
Small crowd
Passive aggressive
Faithfully unfaithful
All of these are examples of what rhetorical device?
euphemism
juxtaposition
alliteration
oxymoron
- 15. Multiple Choice
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood...
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
What type of rhetorical device is used here?
euphemism
allusion
repetition
alliteration
- 16. Multiple Choice
This is an example of what type of appeal?
pathos
logos
ethos
rhetorical question
- 17. Multiple Choice
This is an example of which type of appeal?
ethos
pathos
logos
none of the above
- 18. Multiple Choice
This is an example of which type of appeal?
pathos
logos
ethos
all of these
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