Rhetorical Appeals Quiz

Which Rhetorical Appeal works to gain the audience trust through their facts and evidence?

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos

Which Rhetorical Appeal works to gain the audience trust through their efforts to guide the audience's emotions?

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos

Which Rhetorical Appeal works to gain the audience trust through by emphasizing the speaker/writer's expertise or qualifications?

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos

What is one way the author/speaker guide emotions of their audience? *Check All That Apply

• Tone of Voice
• Humor
• Word Choice

The following quote is an example of which rhetorical appeal? “Senator Pastore. This is a philosophical statement and would take about ten minutes to read, so I'll not do that. One of the first things that a child learns in a healthy family is trust. And I trust what you have said, that you will read this.”

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos

The following quote is an example of which rhetorical appeal? “My first children's program was on WQED fifteen years ago and its budget was $30. Now, with the help of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation and National Educational Television, as well as all of the affiliated stations, each station pays to show our program. It's a unique kind of funding in educational television.”

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos

The following quote is an example of which rhetorical appeal? “I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health. I think that it's much more dramatic that two men could be working out their feelings of anger, much more dramatic than showing something of gunfire. I'm constantly concerned about what our children are seeing. And for fifteen years, I have tried in this country and Canada to present what I feel is a meaningful expression of care.”

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos