Quiz Rhetorical Vocab

Match the following

• Appeals to Credibility, Ethics

• Ethos

• Appeals to Timeliness, Urgency

• Logos

• Appeals to Emotion, Anger, Compassion.

• Kairos

• Appeals to logic, facts, stats, #s

• Pathos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What a text is mostly about

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Topic

• Motif

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The lesson or moral we learn from a story.

"Slavery proved it's ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities" (Douglass 32.

"...education and slavery were incompatible with each other" (Douglass 33).

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Topic

• Motif

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Literacy, Education, Civil Rights, & Courage

are all examples of...

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Topic

• Motif

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

A frequently repeated idea or image in a text that has symbolic meaning.

In his "Atlanta Compromise Speech" Booker T. Washington repeatedly references manhood and manliness.

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Topic

• Motif

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The author's attitude toward a certain topic or audience usually revealed in their choice of words (diction).

The author's word choice shows the author is...

worried, patient, impatient, angry,

• Tone

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A literary element describing feelings or vibes evoked

in readers through words and descriptions in the text.

A beach described as salty sea air, gentle breeze, soft sand,

lapping waves or warm sun rays. = calm and peaceful.

• Tone

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.

"My Mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance ...ceased"

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The repetition of words or phrases occurring at the beginning

in a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines.

"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..."

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The repetition of words or phrases occurring at the end

in a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines.

In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln urged the American people

to ensure that, "government of the people, by the people, for the people,

shall not perish from the earth."

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3