Worksheets"You've Got to Find What You Love" Devices & Appeals
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 12mins
"How can you get fired from a company that you started?" What type of rhetorical device is used here?
Personification
Allusion
Rhetorical Question
Metaphor
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?
Anaphora
Parallel structure
Metaphor
Personification
"It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it." What type of rhetorical device is used here?
Apostrophe
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick." What type of rhetorical device is used here?
Personification
Simile
Hyperbole
Allusion
"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?
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
Not sure
"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?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
"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?
Parallel Structure
Anaphora
Alliteration
Assonance
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." is repeated multiple times at the end of his speech. What type of rhetorical device is used here?
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Anaphora
"...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?
Logos
Ethos
Pathos
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."
Where does Steve Jobs deliver this speech at?
Commencement at Sandford
Celebration at Harvard
Commencement at MIT
Explain how the following statement represents ethos. "[Steve Jobs] met with David Packard (CEO OF HP) and Bob Noyce (CEO of Intel)...."
Who was Steve Jobs?
CEO of Apple & Pixar, and NeXT
Inventor of Microsoft
Inventor of the android
CEO of Samsung
