WorksheetsRhetoric
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen’s rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.
The appeal used in section 1 of the text can best be described as:
The appeal used in section 1 of the text can best be described as:
a)
Logos
b)
Pathos
c)
Fear
d)
Plain Folk
2.
True or False: An example of an “chiasmus” is “it’s not the men in my life’ it’s the life in my men”.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
True or False:The following is an example of a sentence with parallelism “The shape of the rock, and how big it was, and its color reminded me of a small elephant.
a)
True
b)
False
4.
True or False: The difference between a complex and compound-complex sentence is that complex sentence has two or more independent clauses and a compound-complex has one independent clause.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
The noun or pronoun of a following pronoun refers back to is a
a)
Modifier
b)
Antecedent
c)
Parallelism
d)
Antithesis
6.
Alters or intensifies meaning
a)
anaphora
b)
antithesis
c)
modifier
d)
Parallelism
7.
The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses
a)
modifier
b)
parallelism
c)
antecedent
d)
anaphora
8.
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas usually in parallel structure
a)
parallelism
b)
antithesis
c)
modifier
d)
anaphora
9.
Crafting sentences with items placed in comparable grammatical structures
a)
antecedent
b)
anaphora
c)
modifier
d)
parallelism
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