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Rhetorical Devices

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

Kobe Bryant is pictured next to Vitamin Water. The caption says, "3 championships and counting.. 1,845 bottles of vitamin water and chugging.. 1 MVP award and long overdue. Try Vitamin Water, it works for Kobe."

a)

ethos only

b)

ethos and logos

c)

logos only

d)

pathos and ethos

2.

Get the flu shot, so the flu doesn't get you! Influenza can lead to serious complications and even death for people in high risk groups. Protect yourself.

a)

antithesis

b)

pathos

c)

ethos

d)

antithesis and pathos

3.

Your words have power. The power to hurt, the power to help. Give power and use them wisely. A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds. Don't let your words be a cause.

a)

repetition and logos

b)

logos only

c)

pathos and repetition

d)

ethos and pathos

4.

Use L'oreal Paris eye shadow and make your lids as colorful as the rainbow sent after the flood. Be as beautiful as God's promise to Noah.

a)

allusion

b)

simile and allusion

c)

parallel structure

d)

ethois

5.

Wear Nikes. People will notice, people will talk, because people want them.

a)

rhetorical question

b)

logos

c)

metaphor

d)

anaphora

6.

Do you want to feel like you are picking for bugs under your skin? Well, then don't do Meth. Rotten teeth, skin soars, and possible death await you if you do.

a)

parallel structure

b)

ethos

c)

parallel structure and rhetorical question

d)

rhetorical question

7.

You will be fighting for freedom, not from tyranny. We are battling for the end of oppression and to keep our country from annihilation. What are the underlined words an example of?

a)

parallelism

b)

charged language

c)

ethos

d)

logos

8.
a)

pathos and alliteration

b)

logos and anaphora

c)

ethos only

d)

pathos only

9.
a)

pathos

b)

pathos and simile

c)

simile and logos

d)

allusion

10.
a)

ethos

b)

ethos and pathos

c)

pathos and logos

d)

charged language

11.

What is the claim in this picture?

a)

Spare parts for humans

b)

Not as original as those for cars.

c)

BMW

d)

Don't drink and drive.

12.

30 years later and teenagers are still addicted, but now to vaping and texting. 30 years later and parents are even less involved in teens' lives than they were. 30 years later and God has been taken out of the picture and replaced with materialism...

WHAT DEVICE and WHAT TONE?

a)

hopeful tone through ethos

b)

frustrated tone through anaphora

c)

annoyed tone through bias

d)

humorous tone through jokes

13.

"I'd tell you how our mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters still earn less, have no control over their bodies, and are traded and trafficked like slaves, and I could tell you how it's easier for someone to buy a gun and put it to their head than it is to diagnose the illness within it. THE BOLD WORDS ARE...

a)

CHARGED LANGUAGE

b)

PARALLELISM

c)

COUNTERCLAIM

d)

FACTS

14.

The NEW Subway wrap is the single greatest thing in the world! Get one today!

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

hyperbole

d)

onomatopoeia

15.

And we've come here from every crack, crease, and crevice of our country to our Capital to say that, for all those whose cares have been our concern, we're ready.

a)

parallelism

b)

repetition

c)

antithesis

d)

alliteration

16.
a)

rhetorical question

b)

metaphor

c)

anaphora

d)

simile

17.

What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another. - RFK

a)

anaphora

b)

allusion

c)

antithesis

d)

metaphor

18.
a)

pathos

b)

logos

c)

ethos

d)

allusion

19.

“The quiz was a breeze” is an example of what rhetorical device?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Understatement

c)

Allusion

d)

Rhetorical Question

20.

"Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God."

a)

Alliteration

b)

Parallelism

c)

Ethos

d)

Logos