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"You've Got to Find What You Love" Devices & Appeals

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"How can you get fired from a company that you started?" What type of rhetorical device is used here?

a)

Personification

b)

Allusion

c)

Rhetorical Question

d)

Metaphor

2.

Steve Jobs repeats this phrase over and over: "If I had never dropped in", "If I had never dropped out" "...never dropped in". What type of rhetorical device is used here?

a)

Anaphora

b)

Parallel structure

c)

Metaphor

d)

Personification

3.

"It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it." What type of rhetorical device is used here?

a)

Apostrophe

b)

Allusion

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

4.

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick." What type of rhetorical device is used here?

a)

Personification

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Allusion

5.

"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." What type of rhetorical appeal is used here?

a)

Ethos

b)

Logos

c)

Pathos

d)

Not sure

6.

"Remembering you are going to die is the best way to avoid thinking you have something to lost. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." What type of rhetorical device is used here?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Alliteration

7.

"Because almost everything- all eternal expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure- these things just fall away in the face of death." What type of rhetorical device is used here?

a)

Parallel Structure

b)

Anaphora

c)

Alliteration

d)

Assonance

8.

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." is repeated multiple times at the end of his speech. What type of rhetorical device is used here?

a)

Personification

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Anaphora

9.

"...in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion dollar company with over 4,000 employees." Which rhetorical appeal is used here?

a)

Logos

b)

Ethos

c)

Pathos

10.

How is the following excerpt an example of logos? "Pixar went on to create the world's computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world."

4 lines
11.

Where does Steve Jobs deliver this speech at?

a)

Commencement at Sandford

b)

Celebration at Harvard

c)

Commencement at MIT

12.

Explain how the following statement represents ethos. "[Steve Jobs] met with David Packard (CEO OF HP) and Bob Noyce (CEO of Intel)...."

4 lines
13.

Who was Steve Jobs?

a)

CEO of Apple & Pixar, and NeXT

b)

Inventor of Microsoft

c)

Inventor of the android

d)

CEO of Samsung