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Presidential Address Evidence and Appeals

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of evidence is this?
“Workers with a bachelor’s degree...earned about $415 more a week than workers whose highest level of education is a high school diploma.”
a)
Facts and Statistics
b)
Analogy
c)
Illustrative Example
d)
Expert Testimony
2.
What kind of rhetorical appeal does this evidence support?
“Workers with a bachelor’s degree...earned about $415 more a week than workers whose highest level of education is a high school diploma”
a)
logos
b)
ethos
c)
pathos
d)
hypothetical
3.
What kind of evidence is this?
“You’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a sport. You don’t hit every note the first time you sing a new song. You’ve got to practice” and the same is true for being a good student.
a)
personal experience
b)
figurative analogy
c)
literal analogy
d)
illustrative example
4.
What kind of rhetorical appeal does this evidence most support?
“You’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a sport. You don’t hit every note the first time you sing a new song. You’ve got to practice” and the same is true for being a good student.
a)
logos
b)
ethos
c)
pathos
d)
personal experience 
5.

What kind of evidence is this?
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."

a)
hypothetical
b)
literal analogy
c)
figurative analogy
d)
ethos and illustrative example
6.

What kind of rhetorical appeal is supported by this quote?
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."

a)
logos
b)
pathos
c)
ethos
d)
hypothetical
7.
What kind of evidence is this?
"I get it. I know what it's like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us the things that other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn't fit in."
a)
literal analogy
b)
figurative analogy
c)
hypothetical
d)
personal experience
8.
What kind of rhetorical appeal is most supported by this evidence:
"I get it. I know what it's like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us the things that other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn't fit in."
a)
logos
b)
ethos
c)
pathos
d)
all of the above
9.
What kind of evidence is this:
"You make your own future...That's what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas...she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown University -- is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to becoming Dr. Jazmin Perez."
a)
hypothetical 
b)
illustrative example
c)
literal analogy
d)
figurative analogy
10.

What kind of rhetorical appeal is most supported by the use of Jazmin Perez as evidence?

a)

logos and ethos

b)

ethos

c)

pathos

d)

logos and pathos

11.

What kind of evidence is this?
Dr. Willa Evanston of Harvard University explains, "Based on my research, education protects against poverty in the long-run and breaks the cycle of poverty within families."

a)
expert testimony
b)
personal testimony
c)
literal analogy
d)
figurative analogy
12.

What kind of rhetorical appeal is most supported with this evidence? 
Dr. Willa Evanston of Harvard University explains, "Based on my research, education clearly protects against poverty in the long-run and breaks the cycle of poverty within families."

a)
logos
b)
ethos
c)
pathos
d)
none of the above
13.
What kind of rhetorical appeal is supported by this image?
a)
logos
b)
ethos
c)
pathos
d)
none of the above
14.
What kind of rhetorical appeal is supported by this image?
a)
logos
b)
ethos
c)
pathos
d)
none of the above
15.

What kind of rhetorical appeal is supported by this image?

a)

logos

b)

ethos

c)

pathos

d)

none of the above