Semester Vocabulary Review

1. Which rhetorical device involves a direct comparison using "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

2. What is an extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect?

• Hyperbole
• Antithesis
• Rhetorical Question
• Allusion

3. Which of the following is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?

• Alliteration
• Anaphora
• Imagery
• Allusion

4. What rhetorical appeal focuses on logic and reason to persuade the audience?

• Ethos
• Logos
• Pathos
• Rhetorical Question

5. What is "A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are placed together for contrast?"

• Purpose
• Assert
• Hyperbole
• Antithesis

6. Fill in the blank: The speaker used an emotional story to appeal to the audience’s ______________, evoking sympathy.

• Pathos
• Tone
• Audience
• Ethos

7. Fill in the blank: In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King Jr. uses ______________ with the repeated phrase "I have a dream."

• Imagery
• Allusion
• Anaphora
• Generalize

8. Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• "Her smile was as bright as the sun."
• "Life is a highway, and I’m going to ride it all night long."
• "He ran faster than lightning."
• "She sells seashells by the seashore."

9. Which of the following is an example of Ethos?

• "The tone of the speech was serious and passionate."
• "President Bush immediately charted the right path to follow by declaring war against terrorist leaders" .
• "It will remain shrouded in mourning in the violated memory of our country."
• "As a doctor, I’m qualified to tell you this,"

10. "Assert" means...

• asked just for effect, or to lay emphasis on some point being discussed
• the reason the author wrote the text
• to state something confidently and forcefully, often without needing proof or evidence
• a great exaggeration