True or False
Literary Devices
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Barack Obama
100

True or False: Obama did not personally know Reverend Pinckney, the pastor of Mother Emmanuel.

False
100

"Friends of his remarked this week that when Clementa Pinckney entered a room, it was like the future arrived."

Simile

100

"Preacher by 13. Pastor by 18. Public servant by 23." 

Ethos

100

As a child Barack was nicknamed which of the following? 

Bernie, Barry, Benny, Bernard

Barry

200

South Carolina was not involved with the Confederates during the Civil War

False

200

"He was full of empathy, and fellow feeling able to walk through somebody else's shoes and see through their eyes."

Metaphor

200

"When there was a righteous movement to dismantle Jim Crow, Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. preached from its pulpit, and marches began from its steps."

Logos

200

What sport did Barack Obama play in high school?

Basketball, in fact he was nicknamed O'Bomber for his skills on the court

300

True or False "But the person who asked probably didn’t know the history of the AME church." is example of an Allusion.

True

300

"It's true, a flag did not cause these murders"

Personification

300

"...the survivors crippled, the children traumatized and fearful every day as they walk to school, the husband who will never feel his wife’s warm touch, the entire communities whose grief overflows every time they have to watch what happened to them happen to some other place."

Pathos

300

What famous cartoon television show did Obama make a cameo in? 

South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Bojack Horseman

Family Guy