Rhetorical Devices

Which sentence is an example of an asyndeton?

• You can eat your cake with a spoon or fork.
• My dog enjoys being bathed but hates getting his nails trimmed.
• My dinner is delicious, warm, ready to eat.
• My brother refuses to eat peas, nor will he touch carrots.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The balanced arrangement of phrases and sentences so that they have similar constructions and are of equal importance; the intention is to present ideas in a coordinated way in order to reflect that they have equal status 

• paradox
• parallelism
• pathos
• polysyndeton 

What is the best definition of rhetoric?

• the ability to use Greek terms in persuasion
• the art of getting your message across and creating a persuasive argument
• the ability to write a good descriptive essay
• the art of body movement

An appeal to trust, credibility, and ethics is __________.

• Logos
• Pathos
• Ethos
• Burritos

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CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

The appeal to logic is also called

• pathos
• ethos 
• logos

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CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.1

An appeal to emotion is ___________.

• Logos 
• Pathos
• Ethos
• Girly

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CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

What is an asyndeton?

• a word connecting two sentences (for, and, or, etc.)
• the absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence
• a repeating phrase
• a word used to connect ideas (however, therefore, etc.)

He's no spring chicken.

• Litotes
• Personification
• Synchysis
• Anaphora

It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.

• Anaphora
• Metonymy
• Personification
• Synchysis

Every man, every woman, every child, should be loved.

• Simile
• Anaphora
• Assonance
• Analogy