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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which is NOT part of the rhetorical triangle?
Pathos
Speaker
Audience
Purpose
- 2. Multiple Choice
Appealing to a sense of guilt, patriotism or motivation is using which rhetorical appeal?
pathos
ethos
logos
parallelism
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhat are the three rhetorical appeals?essays, advertising, and treatises.logos, pathos, ethos.persuasion, communication, and the rhetorical triangle.logos, pathos, chronos.
- 4. Multiple Choice
From Patrick Henry's speech: We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Which appeal is he using?
Pathos: Super Emotional Appeals
Ethos: He is firm in his belief
Logos and Ethos: His credibility as a Christian and logic using the reason we all possess
Ethos and Pathos: He is ethically inclined to use emotion
- 5. Multiple Choice
From Patrick Henry's speech; Our brethren are already in the field,! Why stand we here idle? Which appeal is he using?
Emotional appeal (Time to fight)
Logical appeal (we are already set in the field)
Both logical and emotional (time to fight because we are already set in the field.)
- 6. Multiple Choice
From Patrick Henry's speech: There are three million of us willing and able to fight. Which appeal is he using?
Ethical appeal
Emotional appeal
Logical appeal
- 7. Multiple Choice
In Patrick Henry's speech, the first paragraph contains all of the following effects EXCEPT
emphasizing how important Henry considers the issue he is addressing
justifying Henry's vehement expression of an opposing opinion
showing Henry's deference to those whose opinions he is about to attack
establishing that Henry is more educated and more religious than his opponents
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT a prominent feature of Patrick Henry's speech?
colloquial diction
parallelism
allusion
emotional diction
- 9. Multiple Choice
Patrick Henry's “Give me liberty or give me
death”, speech was intended for..
King George III
Patriots to gain liberty despite the loyalist favoring laws that limited the Bostonians ability to trade with different colonial regions.
fight to repeal the Intolerable acts and improve relationship with Britain
President of the Virginia Convention & delegates to show that the time has come to fight Britain for their liberty
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is Patrick Henry attempting to persuade his audience to do?
Travel to Britain
Boycott British goods
Make peace with Britain
Go to war with Britain
- 11. Multiple Choice
"Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?" is an example of which persuasive technique?
Repetition
Rhetorical question
Restatement
Parallelism
- 12. Multiple Choice
Patrick Henry uses negatively charged words like slighted, spurned, and disregarded to describe how their previous actions have failed. What is the purpose of negatively charged words?
Logical appeal
Emotional appeal
Ethical appeal
To attract positive words
- 13. Multiple Choice
From Patrick Henry's speech: "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated" is an example of which persuasive technique?
Parallelism
Restatement
Repetition
Rhetorical Question
- 14. Multiple Choice
In Ben Franklin's "Steps to Moral Perfection" how many virtues were there?
9
6
13
16
- 15. Multiple Choice
How does Franklin make a habit of the virtues on his list?
by focusing on the most difficult virtues first
by practicing them all at once
by starting with the virtues that are easiest
by putting them into practice one at a time
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements best identifies Franklin's central idea of this essay?
It is best to examine oneself and focus on acquiring one virtue at a time.
It is too difficult to change one’s identity to bother trying.
Philosophers in the past have provided too many virtues to live by.
Franklin failed in his task because he tried to train too many virtues.
- 17. Multiple Choice
What was Ben Franklin's purpose for writing his autobiography?
To convince his audience it was time to take up arms against Britain.
To prove to Thomas Paine that he, too, had Common Sense.
For the benefit of those who read it and wished to learn from it.
To make money since he was broke at the end of his life.
- 18. Multiple Choice
·Common Sense was a pamphlet Thomas Paine published to distribute in the colonies to...
explain to Britain why they should end the quartering act
influence more people to join the independence movement.
to join the Loyalist party
abide by the Intolerable acts
- 19. Multiple Choice
What tone does Thomas Paine establish when he writes "I turn with the warm ardor of a friend to those who have nobly stood, and are yet determined to stand the matter out"
encouraging
despair
indifferent
flippant
- 20. Multiple Choice
When Paine writes "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service. . " he is. .
Positive saying that brighter days are ahead
Negative saying that these types of people are only "fair weather" people and aren't strong enough for the fight ahead
Inspired by the fighting that has taken place so far, and believes that victory is at close hand
Uncaring for those that don't want to fight because the Torries do have a strong hold on the Colonists.
- 21. Multiple Choice
Thomas Paine believes which of the following:
Let the next generation fight, for they will be stronger and more prepared.
Fighting solves nothing and will only result in heartache so don't be determined to fight.
Hope for reconciliation and a time when peace with reign.
Let the fight come now that the next generation will have peace
- 22. Multiple Choice
When Thomas Paine writes " Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it" he is implying:
We're all happily in this cause together.
Labels given to him are of no concern, the bigger matter is the Revolution
He is indifferent to the ideals of the Torries.
He knows that Revolutions are always a struggle, and always come out the way they are supposed to.
- 23. Multiple Choice
Who is Thomas Paine's audience?
The Colonists who are struggling with recent defeats in battle and need to be encouraged to fight.
The British monarchy and parliament as well as the people of England.
The Torries who have claimed to be the enemy of the Revolution
The Virginia Convention and the delegates who will vote for the impending war
- 24. Multiple Choice
What do both Thomas Paine's writing as well has Patrick Henry's speech have in common?
Both of them are trying to recruit people to join the Torries and be with Britain
Both wanted to encourage, inspire and motivate people to fight for the Colonists in the Revolution
Both give advice for the upcoming future
Both give a list of self-improvement goals.
- 25. Multiple Choice
What are rhetorical strategies?
Strategies that writers use rhetorically.
Writers use strategies to argue that rhetorical writing is the best kinds of writing.
Any elements the writer uses to bring about his purpose.
Only allusion, audience and ethos. That's it. No more.
- 26. Multiple Choice
Which one is the correct way to refer to tone?
This piece has good tone.
The tone of this piece is clear and sound.
The author writes with a determined and persuasive tone.
The author uses tone to get his point across.
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