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Rhetorical Appeals

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The appeal that is concerned with the author/speaker's credibility.

a)

Authority

Ethos

b)

Emotion

Pathos

c)

Logic

Logos

2.

The appeal that is concerned with the audience's feelings.

a)

Authority

Ethos

b)

Emotions

Pathos

c)

Logic

Logos

3.

The appeal that proves to the audience the argument makes sense.

a)

Authority

Ethos

b)

Emotions

Pathos

c)

Logic

Logos

4.

Which appeal does the follow quote MOST represent?

"That determination of ours, extending over all these years, was proved, for example, during the quarter century of wars following the French Revolution."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

5.

Which appeal does the follow quote MOST represent?

"But, as time went on, the American people began to visualize what the downfall of democratic nations might mean to our own democracy."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

6.

Which appeal does the follow quote MOST represent?

"The American people have unalterably set their faces against that tyranny."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

7.

Which appeal does the follow quote MOST represent?

"As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be softheaded."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

8.

Which rhetorical appeal does the following quote MOST represent?

"Every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailed in every part of the world—assailed either by arms, or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda by those who seek to destroy unity and promote discord in nations that are still at peace."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

9.

Which rhetorical appeal does the following quote MOST represent?

"Therefore, as your President, performing my constitutional duty to “give to the Congress information of the state of the Union,” I find it, unhappily, necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

10.

Which rhetorical appeal does the following quote MOST represent?

"Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents. If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe and Asia and Africa and Australasia will be dominated by conquerors."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

11.

Which rhetorical appeal does the following quote MOST represent?

"There is much loose talk of our immunity from immediate and direct invasion from across the seas. Obviously, as long as the British Navy retains its power, no such danger exists. Even if there were no British Navy, it is not probable that any enemy would be stupid enough to attack us by landing troops in the United States from across thousands of miles of ocean, until it had acquired strategic bases from which to operate."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

12.

Which rhetorical appeal does the following quote MOST represent?

"In the recent national election, there was no substantial difference between the two great parties in respect to that national policy."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

13.

Which rhetorical appeal does the following quote MOST represent?

"In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portion of this great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying today."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

14.

Which rhetorical appeal does the following quote MOST represent?

"That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."

a)

Authority

b)

Emotion

c)

Logic

15.

How do authors and speakers appeal to logic? (Pick more than one)

a)

With facts and statistics.

b)

With strong connotations.

c)

By invoking privileged knowledge.

d)

By creating an if/then or cause/effect line of reasoning.

e)

By including their rank or title.

16.

How do authors and speakers appeal to emotion? (Pick more than one)

a)

With facts and statistics.

b)

With strong connotations.

c)

By invoking privileged knowledge.

d)

By creating an if/then or cause/effect line of reasoning.

e)

Using imagery language to create a mental picture.

17.

How do authors and speakers appeal to authority? (Pick more than one)

a)

Emphasizing their rank, title, or experience.

b)

With strong connotations.

c)

Demonstrating that they share the values of their audience.

d)

By creating an if/then or cause/effect line of reasoning.

e)

Supporting their argument with expert or trusted testimony.