WorksheetsRhetorical Devices Quizizz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 1hrs 27mins
writers or speakers draw on the emotions of the reader of audience.
logos
pathos
ethos
persuasion
Parallelism
Antithesis
Metaphor
What type of Persuavise Technique is being used in the sentence below:
“Hatred was spreading everywhere, blood was being spilled everywhere, wars were breaking out everywhere.”
Repetition
Rhetorical questions
Appeals to reason
Appeals to authority
The use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form.
anaphora
analogy
repetition
parallelism
Appeal to logic, including facts and statistics
logos
ethos
pathos
Repeating a sentence structure
simile
parallelism
allusion
logos
Using a speaker's credibility (i.e. celebrity/expert endorsement) to persuade others
ethos
logos
pathos
Words or phrases said over and over to illustrate importance or highlight meaning are usually examples of...
Rhetorical Questions
Simile
Repetition
Allusion
_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer. It's just asked to make a point.
allusion
repetition
rhetorical question
parallelism
Which appeal proves the speaker can be trusted based on character or qualifications?
ethos
logos
pathos
A repeated use of words or phases for emphasis
Personification
Euphemism
Irony
Repetition
Identify the rhetorical device: The phone was ringing, the dishes were washing, and the dinner was burning.
anaphora
juxtaposition
parallelism
What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:
"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."
antithesis
parallelism
apposition
epistrophe
The following is an example of, "I will be tired today, I will be tired tomorrow, I will be tired next week, so please do not ask me to do anything for you.”
Metaphor
Allusion
Parallelism
Analogy
Identify the rhetorical device:
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?"
parallelism
rhetorical question
allusion
metaphor
This ENTIRE section is what type of rhetorical device?
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, from every mountain side. Let freedom ring . . .
parallelism
metaphor
repetition
simile
Identify the rhetorical device:
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
metaphor
repetition
rhetorical question
allusion
