WorksheetsIHAD Rhetorical devices review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.
Repetition/anaphora
Parallelism
Extended metaphor
Allusion
We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their adulthood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating “For Whites Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote
The highlighted portion is an example of?
Allusion
Metaphor
Personification
Repetition/Anaphora
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
This excerpt is an example of?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning. “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountain side, let freedom ring.”
The highlighted portion is an example of...?
Repetition/Anaphora
Parallelism
Allusion (Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers.)
Metaphor
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountain side. Let freedom ring . . .
This ENTIRE excerpt is an example of?
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Parallelism
repetition/Anaphora
" ...to love and to justice..." From the eulogy of MLK by Robert F. Kennedy.
This is an example of?
Repetition/Anaphora
Parallelism
Metaphor
Personification
"Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand
and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed
that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with
compassion and love."
The highlighted portion is an example of?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
"I can
only say that I feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a
member of my family killed"
RFK makes an ALLUSION to his brothers death to..."
Create a sense of ethos because his brother was also an important man like MLK was.
Create a sense of logos because he is stating a fact that his brother also died.
Create a sense of pathos with the audience to show that he has felt the way that they have felt losing an important person in their lives.
Read the following statement and determine the connotation (an idea or feeling that a word invokes) of "savageness."
"They wanted to tame the savageness of man and make the life of this world more gentle."
Positive
Negative
Read the following statement and determine the connotation (an idea or feeling that a word invokes) of "gentle."
"They wanted to tame the savageness of man and make the life of this world more gentle."
Positive
Negative
