Rhetoric Self-Assessment

"They've worked against everything we've worked so hard to build, and they don't care who gets hurt in the process. Make no mistake, they're the enemy, and they won't stop until we're all destroyed."

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery… We also have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut."

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"You know me - I've taught Sunday School at your church for years, babysat your children, and served as a playground director for many summers - so you know I can run your preschool."

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"You'll make the right decision because you have something that not many people do: you have heart."

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”

• Alliteration
• Analogy
• Allusion
• Anecdote

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

Your words have power. The power to hurt, the power to help. Give power and use them wisely. A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds. Don't let your words be a cause.

• repetition and logos

• logos only

• pathos and repetition

• ethos and pathos

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Wear Nikes. People will notice, people will talk, because people want them.

• rhetorical question

• logos

• metaphor

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

30 years later and teenagers are still addicted, but now to vaping and texting. 30 years later and parents are even less involved in teens' lives than they were. 30 years later and God has been taken out of the picture and replaced with materialism...

WHAT DEVICE and WHAT TONE?

• hopeful tone through ethos

• frustrated tone through anaphora

• annoyed tone through bias

• humorous tone through jokes

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

And we've come here from every crack, crease, and crevice of our country to our Capital to say that, for all those whose cares have been our concern, we're ready.

• parallelism

• repetition

• antithesis

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing is called

• persuasion

• arguing

• rhetoric

• complaining

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

CCSS.SL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.1A