Rhetorical Devices Review

What is the term for the author's attitude toward the subject or content of the text?

• Logos

• Ethos

• Tone

• Pathos

What is the term for the use of facts, statistics, or logic to persuade the reader?

• Logos

• Ethos

• Kairos

• Pathos

What is the term for when the speaker tells the audience to take action to solve a problem?

• allusion

• rhetorical question

• call to action

• imagery

Which rhetorical device is used to convince the reader that the author has credibility or authority?

• Repetition

• Rhetorical question

• Imagery

• Ethos

What is the term for a question asked to make a point and doesn’t require a literal answer?

• Repetition

• Rhetorical question

• Imagery

• Ethos

What is the term for the use of emotion to persuade the reader?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Simile

• Metaphor

Which rhetorical device involves the saying a word or phrase more than once to emphasize what is important?

• Call to action

• Repetition

• Tone

• Imagery

What is the term for comparing without using like or as?

Example: Her eyes are the ocean.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

• Rhetorical question

What is the term for comparing using like or as?

Example: He ran like the wind.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

• Rhetorical question

An allusion is a brief reference to a ________ that the audience would likely know.

• historical person or text

• scientific fact

• mathematical question

• geographical location