HELA 2 Rhetorical Devices

Match the following

• Juxtaposition

• Putting two contrasting elements together

• Allusion

• A brief reference to a famous person, event, or literary work.

• Anecdote

• A short, self-contained story with a message

• Hyperbole

• Descriptive words that appeal to the senses

• Imagery

• A deliberate exaggeration

Name the rhetorical device:

"We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers -- in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.”

—George Bush, Address to the Nation on Terrorism

• Juxtaposition

• Parallelism

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

Match the following

• Rhetorical question

• Successive words or phrases with a similar grammatical structure

• Parallelism

• A statement that does not require a response

• Repetition

• Repeating words or phrases to add emphasis

Which of the following does NOT compare two things

• Anecdote

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Analogy

Match the following

• Juxtaposition

• "He was a real Romeo with the ladies"

• Personification

• "Life is like a box of chocolates"

• Allusion

• "I have the best team in the whole world!"

• Hyperbole

• "The flame from the candle danced in the breeze."

• Analogy

• "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

A/an (a)   ​ compares two things to simplify a complex idea. A/an ​ (b)   is a comparison between two things. A/an​ (c)   is a story the illustrates an idea.

• analogy
• metaphor
• anecdote
• allusion
• hyperbole

True or False: Well used rhetorical appeals create meaningful rhetorical devices.

• True

• False

Organize these options into the right appeal

Groups:

(a) Ethos

,

(b) Pathos

,

(c) Logos

• "Cred"

• "head"

• A car safety commercial filled with safety ratings and statistics

• Dentist endorsing a toothpaste brand

• emotional appeal

• ASPCA "sad puppy" commercials