Rhetoric Definitions
What is the difference between repetition and anaphora?
Repetition— repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable
Anaphora— the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect
Identify which rhetorical technique is being used in the passage below:
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of density. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
A. Ethos
B. Pathos
C. Logos
D. Concession
B. Pathos
Antony's speech highly relies on the use of ______________.
A. Allusions
B. Rhetorical Questioning
C. Pathos
D. Ethos
C. Pathos
Identify which rhetorical technique is being used in the excerpt from the passage below:
"And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual."
John Steinbeck, "East of Eden"
A. Pathos
B. Ethos
C. Logos
D. Concession
B. Ethos
Who changed Caesar’s mind to meet the Senators at the capitol?
A. Brutus
B. Calpurina
C. Cassius
D. Decius
D. Decius
Write the definition for concession.
Concession—one acknowledges a point made by one’s opponent
Identify which two rhetorical techniques are being used in the passage below:
"Will we be better off if more Americans get a better education? Will we be better off if we depend less on foreign oil and more on our own ingenuity? Will we be better off if we start doing some nation-building at home? Will we better off if we bring down our deficits in a balanced, responsible way without gutting the various things that we need to grow? When we look back four years from now, or ten years from now, or twenty years from now, won't we be better off if we have the courage to keep moving forward?
-President Barack Obama, "Remarks"
A. Ethos
B. Repetition
C. Concession
D. Anaphora
E. Rhetorical Question
D. Anaphora
E. Rhetorical Question
Identify the rhetorical appeal being used in the passage below:
"Would you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?"
A. Ethos
B. Logos
C. Pathos
D. Concession
B. Logos
Identify which rhetorical technique is being used in the excerpt from the poem below:
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"
- Langston Hughes, "Harlem"
A. Pathos
B. Anaphora
C. Rhetorical Question
D. Concession
C. Rhetorical Question
The last to stab Caesar is _____________.
A. Cinna
B. Artemidorus
C. Brutus
D. Cassius
E. Casca
C. Brutus
Write the definition for pathos.
Pathos— a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response
Identify which rhetorical technique is being used in the passage below:
But tonight, we turn the page. Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. Our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial crisis. More of our kids are graduating than ever before. More of our people are insured than ever before. And we are as free from the grip of foreign oil as we’ve been in almost 30 years.
-President Barack Obama, "2015 State of the Union Address"
A. Ethos
B. Pathos
C. Logos
D. Concession
C. Logos
Identify the rhetorical appeal being used in the passage below:
"Therein ye gods, you make the weak most strong;
Therein ye gods, you tyrants do defeat"
A. Pathos
B. Anaphora
C. Logos
D. Repetition
B. Anaphora
Identify which rhetorical technique is being used in the excerpt from the poem below:
The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn
and he names the sky his own
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.
-Maya Angelou "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
A. Ethos
B. Logos
C. Repetition
D. Pathos
D. Pathos
After Brutus gives his funeral speech the crowd wants him to be...
A. killed
B. crowned
C. banished
D. forgiven
B. crowned
Write the definition for ethos.
Ethos— a way of persuasion through credibility, reliability, trust, and authority
Identify which rhetorical technique is being used in the passage below:
"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed."
Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream"
A. Ethos
B. Pathos
C. Logos
D. Concession
B. Pathos
Brutus, who is a well-respected senator and leader in Rome, speaks before the crowd to explain Caesar's death. By relying on his good name and status in Rome, he is using this rhetorical appeal in his funeral speech: _________________.
A. Pathos
B. Logos
C. Ethos
C. Ethos
Identify which rhetorical technique is being used in the excerpt from the passage below:
Character: Atticus Finch, A Lawyer
“I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty.”
-Harper Lee, "To Kill A Mockingbird"
A. Pathos
B. Ethos
C. Logos
D. Concession
B. Ethos
Why didn’t Caesar stay home with Calpurnia on the ides of March?
A. His ambition overtook him.
B. He couldn’t stand to be around her.
C. He has plans with Brutus and Antony.
D. He had a dream that he was going to be crowned.
A. His ambition overtook him.
Write the definition for logos.
Logos— a way of persuading an audience with facts and logical reasoning
Identify which rhetorical technique is being used in the passage below:
“Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30...
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.”
Steve Jobs, "Stanford Commencement Speech"
A. Logos
B. Anaphora
C. Pathos
D. Ethos
D. Ethos
Identify the two type of rhetorical appeals being used in the passage below:
"O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey?
…
And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?
And do you now strew flowers in his way
That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood?"
A. Repetition
B. Anaphora
C. Logos
D. Ethos
E. Rhetorical Questioning
B. Anaphora
E. Rhetorical Questioning
Identify which rhetorical technique is being used in the excerpt from the passage below:
“Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.”
Francis Bacon, "Of Studies"
A. Pathos
B. Ethos
C. Logos
D. Concession
C. Logos
Here, Bacon discusses the matter of theories versus skills. There comes a clash between reading and not reading. He argues that a reader is better than those who cling to what they already know. He uses the logic that reading is necessary because it improves skills.
Which two characters did NOT try to stop Caesar from going to the Capitol?
A. Soothsayer
B. Artemidorus
C. Calpurnia
D. Portia
E. Antony
D. Portia
E. Antony