Rhetorical Appeals and Devices

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What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?

"If you're still unsure, please consider that my advanced degree and awards for my work speak for themselves."
Options: Pathos, Logos, Ethos

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Ethos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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What Rhetorical Appeal is used here? "98% of patients who take Medicine A reported no side effects and tested negative for the disease." Options: Pathos, Logos, Ethos

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Logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?

"You will never be satisfied in life if you don’t seize this opportunity. Do you want to live the rest of your years thinking about what would have happened if you just jumped when you had the chance?"
Options: Pathos, Logos, Ethos

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Pathos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?

Anyone who cherishes life in all its forms could not help being outraged by the mistreatment of laboratory animals. The so-called scientists who run the labs are evil.

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Pathos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?
According to a study by CNN, 28% of teenagers report that they could manage without a TV.
Options: Pathos, Logos, Ethos

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Logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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What Rhetorical Appeal is used here? Heavy use of the internet may contribute to the international tendency toward breadth rather than depth of knowledge. Using those most essential skills—pointing and clicking—our brightest minds may now never encounter, much less read, the works of Aristotle, Shakespeare, or Steinbeck.

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Logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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"For the end of a theoretical science is truth, but the end of a practical science is performance." - Aristotle

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Parallelism

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn… - T.S. Elliot

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Repetition

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

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What literary device is used in the quote: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." - William Shakespeare? Options: Analogy, Parallelism, Repetition, Hypophora.

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Analogy

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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What technique is employed in the following example? Angel asked, "How can we live in a world without death metal?"

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