Rhetorical Appeals
This appeal relies on logical reasoning and evidence such as facts, statistics, and expert opinions.
What is logos?
A question posed for effect, not requiring an answer, is known as this.
What is a rhetorical question?
This term refers to smoothly incorporating a direct quotation into your own writing, often by blending it with your own sentence to provide context and maintain flow.
What is embedding?
This element of an essay is designed to grab the reader's attention right from the beginning and make them interested in your topic.
What is a hook?
In Ralph Waldo Emerson's “Self-Reliance,” he writes, “A man is like a bit of paper, and we are all so often stained and blotted.” What type of figurative language is used in this comparison?
What is a simile?
This rhetorical appeal targets the audience’s emotions to persuade them.
What is Pathos?
A speaker opens a speech by telling a personal story about overcoming hardship. This is an example of which rhetorical device?
What is an anecdote?
Where does the period go when ending a sentence with a parenthetical citation?
What is after the parenthesis?
This sentence presents the main argument of an essay and usually appears at the end of the introduction.
What is a thesis statement?
In Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, she writes, “Death kindly stopped for me – / The Carriage held but just Ourselves –.” What type of figurative language is used in this description?
What is personification?
This rhetorical appeal establishes the credibility or trustworthiness of the speaker.
What is ethos?
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low." What rhetorical device is being used with the repeated phrase "I have a dream"?
What is repetition?
If the author’s name is mentioned in the sentence, only this is included in the parenthetical citation.
What is the page number?
After presenting textual evidence in a body paragraph, what should you include to explain the significance of that evidence and connect it to your thesis?
What is commentary?
In Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing,” he writes, "The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, / The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work." What type of figurative language is used here?
What is a metaphor?
When Benjamin Franklin reminds the convention that unanimity will strengthen the Constitution, he appeals primarily to this.
What is pathos?
Patrick Henry’s reference to the biblical “having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not” is an example of this.
What is allusion?
Which of the following is an example of a correctly formatted and embedded quote with proper MLA parenthetical citation?
A. Fitzgerald describes Gatsby’s optimism: “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling” (Fitzgerald, 25).
B. Fitzgerald describes Gatsby’s optimism, “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling.” (Fitzgerald 25).
C. Fitzgerald describes Gatsby’s optimism: “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling” (25).
D. Fitzgerald describes Gatsby’s optimism: “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling” (Fitzgerald 25).
What is C?
How many commentary sentences should you include at a minimum after presenting a piece of textual evidence in your body paragraph?
What is 2?
In Emily Dickinson's poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, she writes, “We passed the School, where Children strove / At Recess – in the Ring –.” What type of figurative language is used in this description?
What is imagery?
A doctor with 20 years of experience in cardiology appears in a commercial recommending a specific heart medication. This is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
What is ethos?
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." This famous line from John F. Kennedy's inaugural address is an example of which rhetorical device?
What is parallelism?
In MLA format, this is the correct way to cite a direct quote from page 45 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What is (Fitzgerald 45)?
Background information in the introduction should include this if discussing a literary work.
What are the title, author, and a brief summary?
In Ralph Waldo Emerson's “Self-Reliance,” he writes, “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” What type of figurative language is used in this comparison?
What is a metaphor?