Rhetorical Devices
Modes of Persuasion
Famous Speakers
Famous Speeches
Vocabulary
100
A regular repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses.
What is anaphora?
100
A mode of persuasion appealing to the audience's sense of reason.
What is logos?
100
Delivered a speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of civil rights proponents.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
This speech was given "Four Score and seven years..." after a new nation was born.
What is The Gettysburg Address"
100
Empathy, apathy, pathetic, and pathology all share this root word.
What is pathos?
200
A figure of speech which makes a brief, even casual, reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object.
What is an allusion?
200
The famous speech "I Have A Dream" used repetition of key theme words to appeal to this.
What is pathos?
200
This man's speech will also live in "infamy" as will the day before he gave the speech.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
200
Ronald Reagan delivered a famous speech addressing the country following this tragic event.
What is Space Shuttle Challenger explosion/tragedy?
200
-sens- and -sent- are derived from this origin.
What is Latin?
300
Opposition or juxtaposition of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.
What is antithesis?
300
Martin Luther King, Jr. used allusions to this to strengthen his own ethos.
What is the bible and historical documents?
300
Who said, "And, if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicious, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor..."
Who is JFK?
300
Following a scandal involving "Watergate," this president's uttered "I have never been a quitter," prior to resigning his presidency.
Who is Richard Nixon?
300
All of the words in this week's list have this in common.
What is meanings related to feeling?
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