Rhetorical Devices Lessons

“I have a dream that four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character” (King 5). This is an example of what rhetorical technique?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

SIMILE

• A comparison that does not use like or as

• A comparison that uses like or as

• Pairing a compliment and a criticism to lessen the impact

• Connecting two things

A Rhetorical Device is the use of language that is meant to have ________________________________.

• An effect on its audience.

• A rhetorical choice.

• A sensory feeling on its audience.

• words and flowery language in them.

Which rhetorical device involves the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence to achieve an artistic effect?

• Metonymy

• Anaphora

• Irony

• Metaphor

What is the purpose of using an analogy in rhetoric?

• To tell a story

• To compare two things for explanation or clarification

• To place two things close together with contrasting effect

• To repeat a word or phrase

A statement that sounds logical but that contradicts itself.

• Pun

• Verbal Irony

• Paradox

• Onomatopoeia

What is the best definition for hyperbole?

• A question that has an obvious answer, only used to further an argument

• Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• Comparing two unlike things for emphasis

• Repeating a word or phrase for emphasis

Which of the following would be a technique that implements logos?

• Using pictures of a hurt child

• Including research 

• Having someone credible who agrees with you

• Making people laugh

" . . . and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own hometown. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid."

Which devices/choices are found in this one example?

• ethos

• pathos

• metaphor

• allusion

• simile

I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• juxtaposition

• metaphor