Rhetorical Appeals
This rhetorical appeal targets the audience’s feelings.
What is Pathos?
He wrote The Great Gatsby.
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The prefix bu- means this.
What is "two"?
This play opens with the line "Two households, both alike in dignity."
What is Romeo and Juliet?
A word that names a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
This appeal relies on trust and authority.
What is Ethos?
He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Who is Mark Twain?
The root geo means this.
What is "earth"?
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote this groundbreaking musical about the "ten-dollar Founding Father without a father."
What is Hamilton?
These words show action or a state of being.
What are verbs?
This appeal uses facts, numbers, and reasoning.
What is Logos?
His pamphlet Common Sense encouraged independence from Britain
Who is Thomas Paine?
The suffic -less means this.
What is "without"?
The melancholy Danish prince.
Who is Hamlet?
A word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
This appeal is about timing and urgency.
What is Kairos?
This poet is best known for The Raven and Annabel Lee.
The suffix -ology means this.
What is "the study of"?
This Shakespearean tragedy tells the story of a Scottish general driven to murder by ambition.
These words often end in -ly and describe verbs or adjectives.
What are adverbs?
Repeating the same word or phrase for emphasis at the beginning of a clause.
What is anaphora?
This Southern Gothic author wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Harper Lee?
The suffix -en (like wooden) usually means this.
What is "made of"?
Based on Victor Hugo’s novel, this musical includes “Do You Hear the People Sing?”
What is Les Misérables?
A word that shows the relationship between a noun/pronoun and another word in the sentence.