Rhetorical Devices, Tropes, and Schemes

Arguing and persuading are the same thing.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The person who wrote The Art of Rhetoric was Aristotle.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Which of the following means that the audience trusts the speaker?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Deimos

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which of the following is the use of emotions to influence the audience?

• Pathos

• Deimos

• Logos

• Ethos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which of the following is the use of facts and explanations to convince an audience?

• Deimos

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Logos

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A person can have ethos if he can convince the audience that he

• is inexperienced.

• is rich.

• is a good person.

• is just like them.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

One positive aspect of pathos is that

• it can be used to make the audience comfortable with the speaker.

• emotions are difficult for other people to disprove.

• once the speaker starts using emotions, she must keep using them to keep the audience engaged.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

One downside of using pathos as the basis of an argument is that better-educated people aren't convinced by it.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What is a benefit of basing an argument around logos?

• Everyone will understand the statistics.

• The facts that a speaker uses don't have to be explained.

• It can be very difficult to argue against facts.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Something that a listener has to be careful of regarding logos is that

• most speakers are not telling the truth.

• if a speaker does not say where she found the information, then it is false.

• without pathos attached to it, people won't care about the information.

• statistics can be deceptive.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4