Rhetoric Review

Rhetoric Review

Multiple Choice

What is rhetoric?

• language technique used to convey a point or convince an audience.

• language technique that compares two things using like or as.

• language that restricts the speaker to figurative language only.

Multiple Choice

What are rhetorical devices?

• individual language techniques used that make up an author's rhetoric.

• language that makes a poem sound different from any other poem.

• parts of speech that make up a sentence when they are compiled.

Multiple Select

Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence below?

Poor, poor, pitiful, pathetic judgement. Judgement so distorted it could be compared to one without eyesight.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence below?

I have to be completely honest, public speaking is a sort of Achilles’ heel for me. It always has been.

• allusion

• idiom

• irony

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence below?

The adjustment back to normal will be interesting and I am excited to see it head on. What will you do to experience adventure?

• antithesis

• asyndeton

• rhetorical question

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical appeal is being used in the sentence below?

A dog shelter displays sad photos of dogs in cages to request donations.

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical appeal is being used in the sentence below?

Neutrogena face wash is the #1 dermatologist recommended product on the market.

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical appeal is being used in the sentence below?

A 32-oz. bottle of Tide holds enough to wash 32 loads.

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical appeal is being used in the sentence below?

A child is shown covered in bug bites after using an inferior bug spray.

• ethos

• pathos

• logos