Unit Test Review

Read the following quote from Mary McLeod Bethune:

"We have given you Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, Marian Anderson and George Washington Carver."

What rhetorical appeal best applies to this passage?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the following quote from Mary McLeod Bethune:

"Here my race has been afforded [the] opportunity to advance from a people 80 percent illiterate to a people 80 percent literate; from abject poverty to the ownership and operation of a million farms and 750,000 homes; from total disfranchisement to participation in government; from the status of chattels to recognized contributors to the American culture."

What rhetorical appeal best applies to this passage?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which rhetorical element is Sojourner Truth using when she asks "Ain't I a woman?"

• Rhetorical question

• Counterclaim

• Ethos

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the following quote from Sojourner Truth:

"Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well!"

What rhetorical appeal best applies to this passage?

• Logos

• Ethos

• Pathos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the following quote from Frederick Douglass:

"Without education, he lives within the narrow, dark and grimy walls of ignorance. He is a poor prisoner without hope. The little light that he gets comes to him through dark corridors and grated windows. The sights and sounds which reach him, so significant and full of meaning to the well-trained mind, are to him of dim and shadowy and uncertain importance."

What rhetorical device best applies to this passage?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the following excerpt,

"Certainly there have been times when we may have delayed this mutual understanding by being slow to assume a fuller share of our national responsibility because of the denial of full equality. And yet, we have always been loyal when the ideals of American democracy have been attacked."

What rhetorical or literary device is Dr. Bethune using in this part of her speech?

• Ethos

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical Question

• Counterclaim

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Read the following quote from Frederick Douglass:

"For two hundred and forty years the light of letters was denied him, and the gates of knowledge were closed against him."

Which TWO rhetorical appeals are present in this quote?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the following excerpt from Dr. Bethune's speech:
"We have fought for the democratic principles of equality under the law, equality of opportunity, equality at the ballot box, for the guarantees of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We have fought to preserve one nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Yes, we have fought for America with all her imperfections, not so much for what she is, but for what we know she can be."

What oratory and literary device best describes the underlined parts?

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Which of the following phrases are examples of alliteration? Choose ALL that apply:

• a poor prisoner without hope

• But what's all this here talking about?

• He hears, but does not understand

• laborious and poorly paid work

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following quotes is an example of a metaphor?

• "the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth"

• "where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter."

• "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back"

• "...we have fought for America with all her imperfections."

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6