Literature terms

appeal to reason or logic;uses facts and evidence to convince a reader or listener of the strength of your argument

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

• debate

A politician argues for a new domestic spending program by stating facts and figures about the current level of spending, the current economy, and how this program is projected to improve the economy.

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• debate

A character uses words like "stat" and "emergency" and "prep" and "operation." You can infer that this person works in the ______.

• fire department

• police departmen

• school

• hospital

I called my friend at their house, her brother said she’s not home, but I heard her voice come on the line.

The sentence implies that the tone is ____________.

• suspicious

• angry

• concerned

• afraid

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The night was dark and stormy.

The sentence gives you a _________ ‘mood’.

• bored

• dark

• scary

• hopeful

From Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream:

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• debate

A study on using a specific reading program to teach young children to read cites statistics regarding the number of children who have been helped by the program, their demographics, the conditions under which they used the program, and the gains they made in their reading proficiency while using the program.

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• debate

Advertisement about donating to a charity includes scenes of emaciated children and the words, "For just $1.00 a day, you can feed a starving child."

• pathos

• ethos

• logos

• debate

The policemen on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness washabitual and notfor show,for spectators werefew. The time was barely ten o'clock atnight, but chilly gusts ofwind with a taste of rain had left the streets deserted. The tension was evident on hisface and the city was to quietfor comfort.

In O'Henry's short story, "After Twenty Years," the mood is _____.

• excited and carefree

• nervous or apprehensive

• happy and content

• hilarious and lively

figurative term for the disconnect between what appears to happen or what is apparently being said and the actual truth or reality.

• hyperbole

• understatement

• idiom

• irony