Rhetorical Analysis Practice

Device? "A time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to reap, a time to laugh, a time to weep." The Byrds (1965).

• analogy

• epistrophe

• anaphora

• litotes

Device? "A cup of good strong coffee would not be unwelcome right now."

• Parallelism

• Litotes

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

What is the suggested length of time for the rhetorical analysis essay?

• 40 minutes

• 30 minutes

• 2 hours and 15 minutes

• 1 hour

Which of these should begin the rhetorical precis?

• Author's major claim/thesis/purpose

• Text evidence of strategy

• Connections of strategy to thesis

• The definition of the strategies used by the author

Making a concession in an argument is effective because it shows that the writer

• uses clear, rational ideas

• understands a viewpoint other than their own

• ignores ideas that run counter to their own

• provides a balance of ethos, pathos, logos

Which of these is one of the ways to earn the coveted sophistication point?

• Addressing the speaker's perspective

• Discussing alternate perspectives or a broader context

• Having topic sentences that show the main idea

• Providing commentary for each piece of evidence

When an author references a historical or biblical figure the strategy is called a/an

• Epithet

• Allusion

• Synedoche

• Hyperbole

How the author uses language and words to accomplish a goal 

• oratory

• diction

• rhetoric

• denotation 

the speaker or writer's attitude about a subject

• metaphor

• irony

• mood

• tone

Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs 

• anaphora

• denotation

• assonance

• antithesis