Rhetorical Appeals
What is Ethos?
Ethos is the appeal to credibility.
What is an Allusion?
An allusion is referencing another piece of literature without explicitly mentioning it.
What is the difference between tone and mood?
Tone is how the author wants to display their feelings about the subject in the text while mood is what the author wants the reader to feel.
Name at least one piece of evidence you could use in your writing.
Facts, statistics, examples, expert opinion, textual evidence, or personal anecdotes.
What is Kairos?
The appeal of making a piece of literature in consideration of the timing and what was happening.
What is the difference between a metaphor and an extended metaphor?
A metaphor is simply comparing two things without using like or as once within a text. An extended metaphor continues to use that metaphor several more times throughout the passage.
What is the tone of these words used in an excerpt: ghostly legend, eccentric skeleton, and legend?
A) Skeptical
B) Confused
C) Horrified
D) Hopeless
A) Skeptical
Which rhetorical appeal often uses they’re expert opinion as evidence?
Ethos
Cite the definition of logos and give an example.
Logos is the appeal that uses facts and logic, here is an example.
What is the difference between denotation and connotation and what is an example of each?
Denotation is the dictionary definition of a word and an example is (), and connotation is a cultural definition of a word and an example is ().
Below is an excerpt from The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell. Which best describes the tone used by the author in this excerpt.
“About a year after Mrs. Brontë’s death, an elder sister, as I have before mentioned, came from Penzance to superintend her brother-in-law’s household and look after his children. Miss Branwell was, I believe, a kindly and conscientious woman, with a good deal of character, but with the somewhat narrow ideas natural to one who had spent nearly all her life in the same place. She had strong prejudices, and soon took a distaste to Yorkshire.”
A) Dismissive
B) Hyperbolic
C) Sympathetic
D) Admiring
Which rhetorical appeal often uses facts or statistics as evidence?
Logos
What is the typical appeal used by humane societies to get people to adopt sad puppies?
Pathos
Below is an excerpt from the memoir The World Doesn’t Love You by Trevor Noah. What is the main rhetorical device used by Noah? “One morning I saw an ad in the paper. Some shop was having a clearance sale on mobile phones, and they were selling them at such a ridiculous price I knew Bongani and I could flip them in the hood for a profit…”
Personal Experience
What is the tone of this excerpt from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill?
“Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries.”
A) Imprecise and accusative
B) Whimsical and poetic
C) Evenhanded and logical
C) Evenhanded and Logical
Name the two logical reasonings that could be used in writing.
Deductive and Inductive reasoning
Ethos
Below is an excerpt from the memoir The World Doesn’t Love You by Trevor Noah. What is the main rhetorical device used by Noah?
“One morning I saw an ad in the paper. Some shop was having a clearance sale on mobile phones, and they were selling them at such a ridiculous price I knew Bongani and I could flip them in the hood for a profit…”
Personal Experience
Which of the following exemplifies the author's didactic tone of the excerpt from Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke?
“You will observe that from the Magna Carta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right. By this means, our constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We have an inheritable crown; an inheritable peerage; and a House of Commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties from a long line of ancestors.”
A) “derived to us from our forefathers”
B) The use of overly elevated diction
C) The use of second person directives like "you will observe."
C) The use of second person directives like "you will observe."
Name one of the logical reasonings and define it.
Logical reasoning - reasoning that goes from a specific observation to a general observation or Deductive reasoning starts with a general observation that leads to a specific conclusion.