WorksheetsRhetorical Devices and Persuasive Appeals Review
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 9mins
Persuasion is a type of writing in which an author or speaker attempts to (a) an audience to think a certain way or take a particular action.
Appeal to _______ asks the audience to follow a line of reasoning. Verifiable evidence can be used to support these appeals
ethos
pathos
logos
symos
Appeals to ________ evokes listener's feelings, including sympathy for others. These types of appeals often use words that have strong positive or negative connotations. They may also refer to moral, religious, or patriotic feelings.
logos
ethos
pathos
symos
Appeal to ________ encourages the audience to trust the speaker's credibility. In some cases, such an appeal can be a _______________ or an arugment that doesn not have a true foundation.
ethos, logical fallacy
pathos, logical fallacy
ethos, logical fallacy
symos, logical fallacy
Words and phrases that have strong negative and positive connotations can be ________ __________. This type of language encourages listeners to connect with a speaker's message through emotion rather than logic.
(a)
(a) is the expression of similar ideas in different words. Speakers use this to clarify and emphasize ideas and to add urgency.
_____________ ____________ are special patterns of words and ideas that create emphasis and stir emotion, especially in speeches or other oratory.
(a)
The use of multiple times of the same word or phrase to emphasize key concepts.
Rhetorical devices
repetition
charged language
restatement
The reptition of related ideas in the same grammatical structure. There are many kinds of this, all of which establish a rhythm that makes ideas memorable.
parallelism
repetition
restatement
charged language
(a) is a type of parallelism in which a word or group or words repeat at the beginnings of phrases, clauses or sentences that appear in close succession.
When two strongly contrasting ideas, expressed using parallel structure, are placed side-by-side.
repetition
anaphora
parallelism
antithesis
