Rhetoric Review

__________________ means: two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

• apposition

• antimetabole

• parallelism

• antithesis

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

• anthimeria

• parallelism

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

_________________ means: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• parallelism

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

• antithesis

• parallelism

• apposition

• epistrophe

What rhetorical device is being used in the following quote:

"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..."

• antimetabole

• epistrophe

• anaphora

• rhetorical question

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

• parallelism

• apposition

• asyndeton

• antithesis

A brief account of an interesting event; A story or scene.

• pathos

• diction

• anecdote

• allusion

Writers or speakers connect their thinking to the reader's or audience's own ethical or moral belief.

• pathos

• logos

• ethos

• persuasion

writers or speakers draw on the emotions of the reader of audience.

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

• persuasion

When writers or speakers offer clear examples and proof. They develop ideas with appropriate detail, and they make sure that the readers follow the progression of ideas.

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

• persuasion