Rhetorical Devices Review

When a piece of literature appeals to your mind and explains things to you logically, it is using its...

•  ethos
• pathos
•  mental
•  logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

When an advertisement appeals to your feelings, and not to your logic, it is an example of....

• insanity
• pathos
•  ethos
•  logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which is an example of ethos?

•  Send us money or you're killing children in Africa!
• We've been doing business for 200 years.
• Our planes are designed with speed in mind; they can travel at the SPEED OF LIGHT!

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

Of the forms of rhetoric/appeals, which relies solely on the reputation of the speaker to persuade?

• pathos
• ethos
• nogos
• logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which is most likely an example of Pathos?

• a beer commercial that has nothing to do with beer
• a company document
• a research paper

Which is most likely an example of Logos?

• a beer commercial that has nothing to do with beer
• we've been doing business for 200 years
• this new technology is the best because of its versatility, usability, etc.

A direction to the audience on what to do once they have been convinced of the position/opinion.

• personification
• anecdote
• call to action
• simile

Asked more to make a point and evoke thinking of the reader, than to get an answer.

• rhetorical question
• parallelism
• hyperbole
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Phrases of sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other.

• anecdote
• parallelism
• oxymoron
• simile

A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared.

• simile
• anecdote
• metaphor
• rhetorical question