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WorksheetsAPLC Devices, Appeals and Fallacies Quiz
Total questions: 62
Worksheet time: 38mins
What rhetorical APPEAL is being used in this image?
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
What rhetorical APPEAL is being used in this image?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
What rhetorical APPEAL is being used in this image?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
What rhetorical APPEAL is being used in this image?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
What rhetorical APPEAL is being used in this image?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
What rhetorical APPEAL is being used in this image?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
What rhetorical APPEAL is being used in this image?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
Togas
What rhetorical APPEAL is being used in this image?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
Jeffrey's grandmother "passed away" a few weeks ago, which has made the holiday season difficult for his family.
Parallelism
Juxtaposition
Euphemism
Understatement
Identify the type of rhetorical device used in the following statement: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right..."
repetition
antithesis
logical appeal (logos)
parallelism
“Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better.”
litotes
simile
sententia
anaphora
"For what but war can endless war bring?"
Hypophora
Sententia
Rhetorical question
Procatalepsis
"Depression is a bottomless cup that can hold no liquid."
simile
metaphor
personification
procatlepsis
Identify the type of rhetorical device used in the following statement: "Maycomb County had recently been told that we had nothing to fear but fear itself."
repetition
parallelism
allusion
extended simile/metaphor
"Critics, beware! There's a new film maker in town."
personificatio
allusion
amplification
apostrophe
"Many scientists argue that like Icarus, science ignores the ever-nearing sun at its own peril."
allusion
analogy
metaphor
personification
"The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition."
imagery
personification
procatlepsis
hyperbole
"The shower room, like a steamy Louisianna summer, rang with athletes."
personification
analogy
metaphor
simile
"Now is the time to lift our nation from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice."
juxtaposition
understatement
allusion
analogy
The love of wicked men converts to fear,
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both to worthy danger and deserved death.
-William Shakespeare, Richard II
antimetabole
anadiplosis
polysyndeton
epistrophe
In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.
symploce
anadiplosis
antimetabole
epanalepsis
I was so embarrassed, I almost died right there in front of everyone!
Anaphora
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Antithesis
I was overwhelmed by the deafening silence.
Oxymoron
Paradox
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes..."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Asyndeton
"As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results."
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
Geez, she was rude! I guess people from big cities are not as friendly as those from small towns.
Ad Hominem
False Analogy
Slippery Slope
Hasty Generalization
Don't ever gamble! Once you start, you won't be able to stop, and you'll end up bankrupt!
False Dichotomy (Either/Or)
Slippery Slope
Faulty Analogy
Faulty Causality
Unless you can close your eyes to abuse, write a check to save this puppy.
Ad Hominem
Faulty Analogy
False Dichotomy (Either/Or)
Hasty Generalization
I saw Ashton Kutcher in a prescription drug commercial, therefore it has to be an effective drug.
False Causality (Post Hoc)
False Dichotomy (Either/Or)
Faulty Analogy
Appeal to False Authority
Our house was burglarized right after that new family moved in next door. Therefore, that new family must have been involved.
Hasty generalization
Ad hominem
Red herring
False Causality (Post Hoc)
When you start saying things to me like I need to eat healthier or get more exercise, that says to me that you think I'm fat. I like me, and I like the way I look and more people should have better self esteem.
Categorical Claim
Ad Hominem
Stereotype
Red Herring
After Will said that we should put more money into health and education, Warren responded by saying that he was surprised that Will hates our country so much that he wants to leave it defenseless by cutting military spending.
Ad hominem
Red herring
Straw man
Faulty analogy
Children should not go trick or treating as there always is the possibility that someone could poison the treats is an example of
Post hoc
Appeal to Fear
Sentimentality
Restricted options
During the months when people wear sunglasses, more children die of drowning in pools. Therefore, wearing sunglasses causes children to drown in pools.
correlation does not imply causation
ad hominem
straw man
non sequitur
President Obama was a great communicator because he had the knack of talking effectively to the people.
Circular Logic
Either/Or
False Analogy
Ad Hominem
Smoking cigarettes is just like ingesting arsenic into your system; both have been shown to be causally related to death. If you wouldn't want to take a spoonful of arsenic, I would think that you wouldn't want to continue smoking.
Circular Logic
False Analogy
Either/Or
Moral Equivalence
This is an example of...
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." (Shakespeare)
synechdoche
personification
synethesia
simile
Working hard or hardly working?
chiasmus
hendiadys
personification
praeteritio
We look in toward the Milky Way, in toward the system of Sol, in toward the planet Earth, in toward the nation of China, and, finally, in toward a lonely hut on a lonely hill
anaphora
asyndeton
simile
oxymoron
"O cunning Love! / With tears thou keep'st me blind, / Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find"
apostrophe
conceit
simile
personification
