ELP
Rhetorical Device Definitions
Miscellaneous
Identify! That! Rhetorical! Device!
Parts of an Essay
100

Define pathos

Appeals to emotion
100

Define diction

Word choice

100

Do your best hawk call.

CAWWWWWW

100

What rhetorical device does the author employ in the following excerpt?

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."

Repetition

100

Which paragraph begins with a general topic, gets more specific, and ends with a claim statement?

Intro Paragraph

200

Define logos

Appeals to logic
200

What is the argument/claim that is the opposite of the author's argument/claim?

Counterargument

200

Who is the principal of Armwood High School?

Principal Langston

200

What rhetorical device does the author employ in the following excerpt?

"Teachers may believe eating food in class distracts students, but the real distraction is when students are hungry.

Counterargument/Rebuttal

200
How many body paragraphs should you write in an essay?

3

300

Define ethos

Appeals to credibility or authority

300

What is the author's attitude toward the subject?

Tone

300

Who invented the lightbulb?

Thomas Edison

300

What rhetorical device does the author employ the following excerpt?

"dead" "sick" "sad"

Diction

300

What is one way you can introduce evidence in your essay?

"According to source..." "In source..." "The author writes...." etc.

400

Which two rhetorical devices does the following quote exemplify?

" It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny."

Ethos and Logos

400

Define allusion

A reference to another story in an article/text/story

400

What year did Armwood open?

1984

400

What rhetorical device does the author in the following excerpt?

"I  spend the summers at a cottage on Cape Cod, and for decades I walked the same dunes that Thoreau2 once walked. Not too long ago, people walked with their heads up, looking at the water, the sky, the sand and at one another, talking. Now they often walk with their heads down, typing."

Allusion

400

What comes after evidence?

Commentary

500

Which rhetorical device does the following quote exemplify?

"Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad."

Pathos

500

Define anecdote

A short story

500

Where are all eels born?

The Bermuda Triangle

500

What rhetorical device does the author employ in the following excerpt?

"We can't get enough of one another if we can use technology to keep one another at distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just right. I think of it as a Goldilocks effect."

Allusion

500

What is the minimum number of sentences in a body paragraph?

5

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