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WorksheetsRhetorical Devices in "Letter from Birmingham"
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What type of rhetorical device is used: "Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?"
simile
rhetorical question
allusion
metaphor
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,"
ethos
pathos
logos
allusion
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."
simile
pathos
ethos
logos
What type of rhetorical device is used: “Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid,”
metaphor
allusion
pathos
simile
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."
repetition
personification
parallelism
hyperbole
What type of rhetorical device is used: "smothering in an airtight "cage of poverty"
simile
ethos
metaphor
personification
What type of rhetorical device is used: "Perhaps I was too optimistic. Perhaps I expected too much."
logos
allusion
oxymoron
parallelism
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"
ethos
pathos
repition
hyperbole
What type rhetorical device is being used: "many streets of the South would, I am convinced, be flowing with blood"
hyperbole
ethos
logos
parallelism
What type of rhetorical device is being used: "Stinging darts of segregation"
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
personification
