Definitions
Using language effectively, using language to please or persuade
Rhetoric
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" is an example of what? (choose all that apply)
antithesis, anaphora, parallelism
Why do we use ethos, pathos, and logos in speech and writing?
"The Soul selects her own Society-
Then - shuts the Door - " This is an example of...
alliteration, metaphor
What do we call an author's choice of words?
Diction
Within the same sentence or passage, repeating the same pattern of words or phrases to show that two ideas have the same importance
Parallelism
"I would rather be ashes than dust!" This is an example of what?
antithesis
"When I was 37, I helped start a small company. My partners and I had been working for a company that was in the business of helping other businesses . . . So we started a new business called Bain Capital...That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story." Does this best represent ethos, pathos, or logos?
Ethos
"Othello: She was false as water.
Emilia: Thou are rash as fire,
To say that she was false: O she was heavenly true."
This shows an example of...
Simile
"Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard. People had to wait until sunup to find out what folks were talking about the night before." This is an example of...
hyperbole
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word for emphasis
alliteration
"My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors." This is an example of what?
Parallelism
“It’s the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants settingout for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworker’s son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.” This best represents...
Pathos
"When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn't necessary." This is an example of...
Allusion
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." This is an example of...
Metaphor
Extravagant exaggeration
hyperbole
"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..."
anaphora, parallelism
"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." This best represents...
Logos
"We have come together this afternoon to mourn the deaths of sixteen miners—our friends and neighbors—who were trapped by fire yesterday, deep below the earth. They lived bravely and they died too soon, leaving behind grieving wives and bewildered children. We bid them a final farewell." What is the tone of this passage?
sad, sorrowful, depressing
"Therefore I have been in full harmony all my life with the tides which have flowed on both sides of the Atlantic against privilege and monopoly and I have steered confidently towards the Gettysburg ideal of government of the people, by the people, for the people." The italicized section is an example of what?
Allusion
Passing reference to person, event, or another work of literature—automatically adds a deeper meaning to the text being read
allusion
In every cry of every Man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
Anaphora, parallelism
"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people – women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government – the ballot." Which TWO appeals does this represent?
logos, pathos
"For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme
He must not float upon his watery bier
Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,
Without the meed of some melodious tear." What is the tone of this passage?
sad, mournful
"The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest." This is an example of...
Allusion