ELAS 2 - Rhetoric Review Quiz

When you employ the ethos approach in rhetoric, you make an appeal to...

• logic

• credibility

• emotion

• urgency

Which rhetorical approach makes an appeal to emotion?

Which appeal is dominant in the following example?

"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."

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

Which appeal is dominant in the following example?

"My three decades of experience in public service, my tireless commitment to the people of this community, and my willingness to reach across the aisle and cooperate with the opposition, make me the ideal candidate for your mayor."

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

Which appeal is dominant in the following example?

"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."

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

The sentence below is an example of which rhetorical device?

It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.

• anaphora

• auxesis

• antithesis

• periphrasis

The sentence below is an example of which rhetorical device?

For no government is better than the men who compose it, and I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best.

• epistrophe

• concessio

• diazeugma

• tricolon

Use of which of the following rhetorical devices runs the risk of employing a logical fallacy?

• argumentum ad populum

• syntheton

• comprobatio

• anaphora

The sentence below is an example of which rhetorical device?

We shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us.

• chiasmus

• antithesis

• hyperbole

• dialysis

True or false? ‘Comprobatio’ is making a small concession in order to gain a more significant win.

• True

• False