WorksheetsRhetorical Term Review up to Episode 4
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Match with the correct term: "My fellow Americans..."
a)
Logos
b)
Ethos
c)
Pathos
d)
Rhetoric
2.
Match with the correct term: "In the past two seasons, her shooting percentage from the floor averaged 79%, while her shooting percentage for 3-pointers is an astounding 82%."
a)
Logos
b)
Ethos
c)
Pathos
d)
Rhetoric
3.
Match with the correct term: an advertisement featuring puppy licking a small child.
a)
Logos
b)
Ethos
c)
Pathos
d)
Rhetoric
4.
Match with the correct term: an ad on a billboard that features an eagle and an American flag.
a)
Logos
b)
Ethos
c)
Pathos
d)
Rhetoric
5.
Match with the correct term: "His girlfriend and his last hope for happiness walked out the gymnasium door."
a)
parallelism
b)
zeugma
c)
litotes
d)
aporia
6.
Match with the correct term: an ad for a political candidate that features a picture of ISIS soldiers riding in a pickup truck.
a)
Logos
b)
Ethos
c)
Pathos
d)
Rhetoric
7.
Match with the correct term: My parents took away my phone, but I'm getting all my homework done these days.
a)
antanagoge
b)
anadiplosis
c)
paralipsis
d)
anaphora
8.
Match with the correct term: "Spending the evening with your best friends and a classic movie is not a bad way to pass the time."
a)
dysphemism
b)
synecdoche
c)
rhetorical question
d)
litotes
9.
Match with the correct term: "Nattering nabobs of negativism."
a)
alliteration
b)
allusion
c)
understatement
d)
anaphora
10.
Match with the correct term: "This here is the Cadillac of lawnmowers."
a)
euphemism
b)
understatement
c)
allusion
d)
synecdoche
11.
Match with the correct term: "I'm so tired I could sleep for a lifetime."
a)
adynation
b)
hyperbole
c)
understatement
d)
anadiplosis
12.
ALL BUT WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING are ways to communicate with your audience aside from the text of your speech?
a)
Tone
b)
rhetoric
c)
Eye contact
d)
Gestures
13.
Match with the correct term: "All eyes were on the speaker as she addressed the crowd."
a)
analogy
b)
paralipsis
c)
synechdoche
d)
tricolon
14.
Match with the correct term: "After only making slight contact with the opposing player, Michael took a dive."
a)
euphemism
b)
dyphemism
c)
anadiplosis
d)
hyperbole
15.
Match with the correct term: "When Anna has nothing to do, Anna is bored. When Anna gets bored, she orders Direct TV. When she orders Direct TV, she watches a lot of TV. When she watches a lot of TV, she watches Direct TV ads."
a)
paralipsis
b)
anadiplosis
c)
anaphora
d)
analogy
16.
Match with the correct term: In the Monty Python movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Black Knight says "It's just a scratch!" after his arm gets cut off and blood is shooting everywhere.
a)
aporia
b)
anaphora
c)
understatement
d)
adynation
17.
Match with the correct term: "He can't be trusted. Nearly everything he says is a lie."
a)
aporia
b)
parallelism
c)
hyperbole
d)
adynation
18.
Match with the correct term: "I have cooked for you, I have driven you around, and I have washed your clothes."
a)
zeugma
b)
paralipsis
c)
rebuttal
d)
anaphora
19.
Match with the correct term: “That budget now stands at $5,400 million a year--a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year.”
a)
analogy
b)
anaphora
c)
aporia
d)
antanagoge
20.
Match with the correct term: "I ask myself: Should I listen to my best friend, or to my mother-in-law?"
a)
antanagoge
b)
allusion
c)
aporia
d)
alliteration
21.
Match with the correct term: "What are you - an idiot?!"
a)
rhetoric
b)
anaphora
c)
aporia
d)
rhetorical question
22.
Match with the correct term: "I came, I saw, I conquered."
a)
litotes
b)
anadiplosis
c)
tricolon
d)
antanagoge
23.
Match with the correct term: "Ravenous gangs prowled the streets in search of innocent victims."
a)
alliteration
b)
emotive language
c)
oxymoron
d)
parallelism
24.
Match with the correct term: "I'm not even going to mention my opponent's attendance record when she was in the third grade."
a)
anadiplosis
b)
litotes
c)
paralipsis
d)
zeugman
25.
Match with the correct term: "I don't eat fast food - I'm not putting a heart attack-in-a-bun into my body!"
a)
oxymoron
b)
dysphemism
c)
alliteration
d)
allusion
26.
Match with the correct term: Biggie Smalls
a)
emotive language
b)
hook
c)
rebuttal
d)
oxymoron
27.
Match with the correct term: "Can you please lend me a hand over here?"
a)
synecdoche
b)
zeugma
c)
litotes
d)
oxymoron
28.
Match with the correct term: "No one is an island; no one can stand alone; no one can reach her potential without the help of others; no one can do it all himself."
a)
synecdoche
b)
zeugma
c)
parallelism
d)
oxymoron
29.
Match with the correct term: "I think Roger was granted a permanent vacation from him job."
a)
dysphemism
b)
euphemism
c)
aporia
d)
analogy
30.
Match with the correct term: "We won't even discuss your struggling performance on the lacrosse team."
a)
paralipsis
b)
synecdoche
c)
litotes
d)
hyperbole
31.
Match with the correct term: "I ran to the fridge, grabbed the milk, saw the cake, found a plate, and ate a piece."
a)
parallelism
b)
zuegma
c)
tricolon
d)
antanagoge
32.
Match with the correct term: "It was not an unpleasant way to spend the evening."
a)
parallelism
b)
zuegma
c)
litotes
d)
antanagoge
33.
Match with the correct term: "His girlfriend and his hopes for all future happiness walked out of the dance and into the rain."
a)
parallelism
b)
zuegma
c)
litotes
d)
antanagoge
34.
This is the speaker's goal in a speech:
a)
rebuttal
b)
purpose
c)
rhetoric
d)
aporia
35.
The art of using language for the purpose of persuasion.
a)
rhetoric
b)
rhetorical question
c)
rhetorical device
d)
rebuttal
36.
This term is also known as repetition.
a)
anaphora
b)
antanagoge
c)
aporia
d)
allusion
37.
Who invented the three modes of persuasion: ethos, logos, and pathos?
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
d)
Alexander the Great
38.
Who taught the guy who invented the 3 modes of persuasion: ethos, logos, and pathos?
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
d)
Alexander the Great
39.
Who taught the guy who taught the guy who invented the 3 modes of persuasion: ethos, logos, and pathos?
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
d)
Alexander the Great
40.
Who did the guy who invented the 3 modes of persuasion (ethos, logos, and pathos) teach?
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
d)
Alexander the Great
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