MLA Formatting
Rhetorical Devices
Persuasive Appeals
100
The location of your page number

Where is the top right corner?

100

This is a purposeful exaggeration of something to make a point, and not to be taken literally

What is a hyperbole?

100

This persuasive appeal is based upon straightforward, logical thinking

What is Logos?

200

The size and type of font you use in MLA formatting

What is Times New Roman and 12 point?

200

This is used to undermine the importance of a subject you are talking about

What is an understatement?

200

This persuasive appeal is based upon an emotional connection to your audience

What is Pathos?

300

The distance your text written should be from the margins

What is one inch from the top, one inch from the side?

300

The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clause, sentences, or lines of poetry

What is epistrophe?

300

This persuasive appeal is based upon establishing your character and credibility

What is Ethos?

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