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Rhetorical Devices

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In an appeal to logic, this argument is a way of persuading an audience with reason, using facts and figures

a)

Logos

b)

Pathos

c)

Ethos

2.

In an appeal to emotion, this argument is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response to an impassioned plea or convincing story

a)

Logos

b)

Pathos

c)

Ethos

3.

In an appeal to ethics, this argument is used as a means of convincing an audience via the authority or credibility of the persuader, be it a notable or experienced figure in the field or even a popular celebrity

a)

Logos

b)

Pathos

c)

Ethos

4.

The direct meaning of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; explicit or primary meaning.

a)

Denotation

b)

Connotation

5.

The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression; the feelings or images associated with particular words

a)

Denotation

b)

Connotation

6.

Words or statements that are fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated

a)

Explicit

b)

Implicit

7.

Statements or words that are NOT plainly expressed but rather suggested

a)

Explicit

b)

Implicit

8.

The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one considered to be offensive, harsh, or blunt

a)

Juxtaposition

b)

Euphemism

9.

An act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

a)

Juxtaposition

b)

Euphemism

10.

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

"This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent"

a)

Alliteration

b)

Allusion

11.

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

"a state sweltering with the heat of injustice"

a)

Vernacular

b)

Personification

c)

Propaganda

12.

_________ is the technique or art of using language effectively in order to persuade or influence

a)

Rhetoric

b)

Loaded language

13.

"There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?'"

a)

Loaded question

b)

Rhetorical question

c)

Explicit language

d)

Connotation

14.

We will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Vernacular

d)

Euphemism

15.

"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."

a)

Denotation

b)

Symbolism

c)

Propaganda

d)

Vernacular

16.

"This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable Rights' of 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'"

a)

Assonance

b)

Alliteration

c)

Vernacular

d)

Allusion

17.

"...our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: 'For Whites Only.'"

a)

Pathos

b)

Ethos

c)

Logos

18.

"...to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. Now is the time to make ... Now is the time to rise ... Now is the time to lift ... Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children." (Check all correct answers)

a)

Parallelism

b)

Propaganda

c)

Explicit Language

d)

Anaphora

19.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. (Select all correct answers)

a)

Metaphor

b)

Euphemism

c)

Juxtaposition

d)

Pathos

20.

"Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow‐capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that: 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." (select all correct answers)

a)

Juxtaposition

b)

Vernacular

c)

Euphemism

d)

Parallelism