Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Appeals
Sentence Types
Greek Background
100
A sound, phrase, clause, or sentence used more than once, within a passage or text.
Repetition
100
What has a play on peoples emotions?
Pathos
100
What is a group of words that can function as a Noun?
Noun Phrase
100
What is the Chorus?
A group of singers, who once honored Dionysus by chanting hymns
200
Definition of Charged Language
using words and phrases with strong annotations, depending on audience
200
What Appeal does this show?
Ethos
200
which sentence type has multiple subjects
A compound sentence
200
Where is The Parthenon located
Athens
300
What Rhetorical Device is being used: Chocolate is my Achilles Heel.
Allusion
300
What is the Rhetorical appeal that utilizes logic to backup your argument
Logos
300
What conjunctions introduce a secondary clause?
Subordinating Conjunctions
300
Who were the three master play writers?
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
400
What is Antithesis?
Two strongly contrasting ideas expressing using parallel structure placed side by side.
400
How does pathos affect a reader?
causes strong emotional reactions within an audience.
400
"When the cake is brown, remove it from the oven" is an example of which sentence type?
Complex sentence
400
Other than a writer what was Sophocles?
A hot government official and general in the Athenian military
500
Repeating of the last word of a praise/clause to start the next with the same word or phase
Anadiplosis
500
What Rhetorical appeals did MLK use in his "I Have a Dream Speech"
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
500
"I woke up at six o'clock because I had to hit the gym, but I was too tired to get out of bed." Is an example of which type of sentence type?
Compound complex sentence?
500
What is Tragic Flaw?
A profound error in judgment due to hubris.