HJr English Review-Rhetorical Terms

What appeals are based in facts, reasoning, research, or statistics?

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

What appeals focus on the credibility or trustworthiness of the speaker/writer?

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

What appeals attempt to evoke an emotional response from the audience in order to convey the central message?

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

What is a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way?

• hyperbole

• anecdote

• analogy

• symbolism

What device is used in the following quotation: "What the hammer? what the chain? / In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”

• personification

• anaphora

• metaphor

• diction

What device does a writer use when s/he provides a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event?

• anecdote

• foreshadowing

• understatement

• analogy

What device is used in the following quotation from Macbeth's dagger soliloquy: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still” (2.1)

• parallelism

• simile

• wordplay

• apostrophe

How do authors provide their audience with an emotional break, particularly after a shocking, tragic, or violent scene?

• pathos

• comic relief

• personification

• mood

When analyzing the cumulative impact of the word choice in a passage, you are analyzing...

• logos

• mood

• diction

• symbolism

Holden referring to his story as "this madman stuff" is an example of what device?

• foreshadowing

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• anecdote