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Rhetorical Devices in "Letter from Birmingham"

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of rhetorical device is used: "Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?"

a)

simile

b)

rhetorical question

c)

allusion

d)

metaphor

2.

What type of rhetorical device is used: "My Dear fellow clergymen," " I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth,"

a)

ethos

b)

pathos

c)

logos

d)

allusion

3.

What type of rhetorical device is used: "We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

a)

simile

b)

pathos

c)

ethos

d)

logos

4.

What type of rhetorical device is used: “Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid,”

a)

metaphor

b)

allusion

c)

pathos

d)

simile

5.

What type of rhetorical device is used: "The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet like speed towards gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse and buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter."

a)

repetition

b)

personification

c)

parallelism

d)

hyperbole

6.

What type of rhetorical device is used: "smothering in an airtight "cage of poverty"

a)

simile

b)

ethos

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

7.

What type of rhetorical device is used: "Perhaps I was too optimistic. Perhaps I expected too much."

a)

logos

b)

allusion

c)

oxymoron

d)

parallelism

8.

What type of rhetorical device is used: "But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will...as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter whey she can't go to the public amusement park...when you are forever fighting a sense of nobodiness"

a)

ethos

b)

pathos

c)

repition

d)

hyperbole

9.

What type rhetorical device is being used: "many streets of the South would, I am convinced, be flowing with blood"

a)

hyperbole

b)

ethos

c)

logos

d)

parallelism

10.

What type of rhetorical device is being used: "Stinging darts of segregation"

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification