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Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Appeals
Connotation & Denotation
Gettysburg Address
Historical Context on the ANOC
100
It's the repetition of the same word or words in continous clauses of phrases.
What is anaphora?
100
Using reason and factual information to persuade.
What is Logos?
100
the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning
What is connotation?
100
Who was the speaker of the Gettysburg Address speech?
Abraham Lincoln
100
How many men and women died in the accident?
Five men and two women.
200
It's the repetition of a consonant sound in a sentence.
What is Alliteration?
200
Using emotional appeals that trigger emotional responses.
What is pathos?
200
the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression
What is denotation?
200
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent." This is an example of...
Allusion
200
What is the name of the only person in the spaceship who was not an astronaut, but a middle school teacher?
Christa McAuliffe
300
A short, informal, direct or indirect reference to a well-known person, place, thing or event that the writer assumes the reader is familiar with.
What is allusion?
300
Using the author’s character or ethics to appeal to the audience using the power of image.
What is Ethos?
300
it this connotation or denotation? Mourn: to feel or express sorrow or grief.
Denotation
300
What event was happening during the time the speech was given?
The Civil War
300
Which countries were participating in the so-called "Space Race"?
United States and The Soviet Union
400
Three parallel words, phrases or clauses.
What is tricolon?
400
What rhetorical appeal is this? "On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, 'He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.'"
Logos
400
Connotation or denotation? Mourn: it reflects sadness because it is talking about sorrow and death.
Connotation
400
Who is the speaker addressing to?
The nation, as people from the north were fighting the people from the south about slavery
400
What is the tone of the speech?
It's a tone of mourn, sorrow and grief, as it is referring to the nation on a horrible tragedy.
500
The repetitive use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and therefore the opposite of asyndeton.
What is polysyndeton?
500
What rhetorical appeal is this? "For the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy."
Pathos
500
Connotation or denotation? Pioneers: a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
Denotation
500
"We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live." This is an example of...
Anaphora
500
what is the date in which the accident took place?
January 28, 1986