Rhetorical Strategies and Devices

Dunkin Doughnuts, Coca-Cola and Bed Bath and Beyond are examples of which rhetorical device?

• Personification

• Parallelism

• Allusion

• Alliteration

This rhetorical device is used when non-human like objects or ideas are given human qualities.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

This rhetorical device that is an arrangement of words or sentences in similar grammatical form to show the ideas are equal in importance.

Examples of this are:

Easy come, easy go

Like father, like son.

I have a dream.

• Parallelism

• Repetition

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

A hyperbole is an exaggeration that is obvious and not supposed to be taken literally.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A rhetorical question requires an answer.

• No

• Yes

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

An allusion is a reference to a historical event, person, etc.

• False

• True

Pick which of the following are examples of the rhetorical device Oxymoron:

(pick all that apply)

• Bright Night

• Cold Fire

• Loving Hate

• Lively Dead

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which rhetorical strategy appeals to logic and reason?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Kairos

What is rhetorical analysis?

• Analyzing the effectiveness of rhetorical devices

• Analyzing the emotions of an audience

• Analyzing the structure of a speech

• Analyzing the credibility of a speaker

Which rhetorical appeal appeals to emotions and feelings?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Kairos