Rhetorical Devices Test

Rhetorical appeal used to appeal to an audience’s sense of logical reasoning

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Rhetorical appeal used to appeal to an audience’s sense of credibility of the speaker

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Rhetorical appeal used to appeal to an audience’s sense of emotion

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis

• Anaphora

• Parallelism

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

• Parallelism

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The use of successive verbal constructions (patterns) in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure - usually in a series

• Anaphora

• Parallelism

• Metaphor

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

A comparison without using like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Parallelism

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The way a writer uses words to describe events, objects, or ideas.The way an author writers (his/her voice).

• Speech

• Sub-claim

• Style

• Claim

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The main argument of a speaker.

• Speech

• Claim

• Sub-claim

• Style

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

An oral, public address or talk.

• Speech

• Claim

• Sub-claim

• Style

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D