Rhetorical Devices
Oratory Boretory
Rhetorical Devices II
Speeches of Rhetoric
100

________ is the rhetorical term that consists of three parallel clauses, phrases, or words, which happen to come in quick succession without any interruption.

Tricolon

100

_____ is persuasion based on emotion

Pathos

100

I wanted to jump off of a bridge after I took that math test.

Hyperbole

100

Who said the "I have a dream" speech, and what rhetorical device/devices is this phrase in the speech

MLK, anaphora

200

Epistrophe is . . . 

the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

200

Logos is . . .

persuasion based on logic or reason

200

the repeated use on one word as different parts of speech

Polyptoton

200

Who said "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.", and what rhetorical device is this.

JFK, chiasmus

300

Anadiplosis is . . .

a device in which the last word or phrase of one clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next.

300

These are examples of which rhetorical appeal

Five score years ago . . .

Now is the time . . .

kairos

300

“Let us not negotiate from fear but let us not fear to negotiate.”

What rhetorical device is this an example of?

Antimetabole/Chiasmus

300

In Elanor Roosavelt’s Pearl Harbor radio address on Dec. 7, 1941, she says, “We know what we have to face and we know that we are ready to face it”. Name the two rhetorical devices used in this sentence.

Anaphora, parallel structure

400


Litotes

400

Name a type of logical fallacy, and give an example

bandwagon, Ad hominem, slippery slope, etc.

400

Synecdoche is . . .

a rhetorical device where the whole is represented by naming one of its parts

400

Who said this and what rhetorical devices are being used?  “We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a State noted for strength, and we stand for all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of fear and hope, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance.”

JFK, Broadening, antithesis, triplet, alliteration

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