Rhetorical Devices
This rhetorical device appeals to logic and uses facts to persuade the audience.
What is Logos?
This term refers to reducing or limiting a right or freedom.
What is Abridging?
This word means 'the inability to be wrong.'
What is Infallibility?
This punctuation is used to separate items in a list.
What is a Comma?
This document declared the American colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This device aims to evoke an emotional response to strengthen the argument.
What is Pathos?
The Bill of Rights protects several freedoms, including this one that allows citizens to express ideas and opinions without fear of government retaliation.
What is Freedom of Speech?
What does **despotism** mean?
What is the exercise of absolute power in a cruel or oppressive way?
Identify the grammatical error in this sentence: 'She likes swimming, to run, and playing soccer.'
What is incorrect parallel structure?
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are collectively known as?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is Ethos?
In speeches, this device appeals to the speaker’s credibility and character.
According to the U.S. Constitution, if a government fails to protect the people's rights, what do the people have the right to do?
What is alter or abolish the government?
This word describes **preconceived opinions** not based on reason or actual experience.
What is Prejudices?
Rewrite the following sentence to be grammatically correct: 'The teacher, she was late to class, she forgot her keys.'
What is: 'The teacher was late to class because she forgot her keys?'
Which amendment protects the right to free speech, religion, and assembly?
What is the First Amendment?
In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson uses **pathos** by describing the colonies' suffering under British rule. Give another example of how **pathos** can be used to persuade.
What is using images of children suffering to persuade people to support a charity?
How does the **First Amendment** protect the right to petition?
What is it allows people to formally request changes from the government without fear of punishment?
Use the word **inalienable** in a sentence related to individual rights.
What is: 'The right to freedom is considered inalienable, meaning it cannot be taken away.'
This rule ensures that items in a series or list follow the same grammatical structure.
What is Parallel Structure?
How does the Declaration of Independence justify the colonies’ right to revolt against British rule?
What is the argument that governments exist to protect people’s rights, and when they fail, people can change or overthrow the government?
Identify the rhetorical strategy when a speaker uses strong ethical arguments to build trust and convey moral responsibility.
What is Ethos?
In what way do the U.S. and UAE legal systems differ when it comes to freedom of the press?
What is that the U.S. protects press freedom more strongly, while the UAE imposes more restrictions on criticism of the government?
This word, often found in government documents, means **beneficial** or 'producing good effects.'
What is Salutary?
Correct the following sentence: 'The students who worked hard got good grades, the others did not.'
What is: 'The students who worked hard got good grades, but the others did not?'
Explain how the **Bill of Rights** ensures freedom of the press in a democratic society.
What is the protection from government interference, allowing the press to criticize, inform, and hold leaders accountable?