Structure
Reasoning Evidence
Figurative language
Mash up
Rhetorical Devices
100
How does the author structure the text?
Cause/effect
Problem Solution
Chronological order
Compare/contrast
What is
Compare/Contrast?
100
Bottom to top approach
Inductive reasoning
100
Her eyes shone like diamonds in the sky.
What type of figurative language is used?
What is
a simile?
100
Rhetoric is…
A. Expert Testimony
B. The art of using language to persuasion
C. Establishing facts and judgments about the past
D. A speech
WHAT IS
B. The art of using language to persuasion
100
This rhetorical appeal is aimed to pull at the heart strings or other emotions of the audience
What is
PATHOS
200
What is the text structure?
a. description
b. compare and contrast
c. sequence and order
d. cause and effect
What is
d. cause and effect
200
Evidence based on one's personal experiences. testimonials, or short interesting stories
What is
ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE?
200
This is an example of which type of rhetorical device?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Oxymoron
What is
C. Personification
200
This text structure can be graphed on a Venn diagram to show the similarities and differences
What is
COMPARE AND CONTRAST?
200
This is an example of which type of rhetorical appeal?
A. Ethos B. Logos C. Pathos
WHAT IS
ETHOS?
300
What text structure is used?
Cause Effect
Main ideas/description
Problem/Solution
Compare Contrast
What is
PROBLEM/ SOLUTION?
300
The human body cannot survive more than three days without water. The victim has been under the rubble for five days without water. Therefore, the victim is probably dead.
Inductive reasoning
Deductive reasoning
What is
DEDUCTIVE reasoning
300
This is an example of which type of rhetorical device?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
What is
B. METAPHOR?
300
This term refers to the author's main focus or point they are trying to prove
WHAT IS
CLAIM?
300
Read the excerpt from Franklin Roosevelt’s request for a declaration of war.
It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
Which best describes the type of appeal used in this part of the speech?
ETHOS
LOGOS
PATHOS
What is LOGOS?
400
How is the text structured?
Problem/Solution
Cause/effect
Compare/contrast
Spatial description
What is
Cause/effect?
400
Evidence based on scientific research and observation .
What is EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE?
400
What type of figurative language is used in the example above?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Oxymoron
What is
D. Oxymoron?
400
Read the excerpt from "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth.
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Which rhetorical technique is NOT used by the speaker in this excerpt?
Ethos
Metaphor
Rhetorical Question
Pathos
What is a
metaphor?
400
What technique is used in he example above?
A. Parallelism
B. Logos
C. Rhetorical question
D. Text Structure
What is
A. Parallelism
AND
C. Rhetorical question
500
How is the text structured?
What is
SPATIAL ORDER?
500
Marshall was the last person to leave the room. Ms. Topkins, the teacher across the hall, saw Marshall standing near Mrs. Pike’s desk after the bell rang. When Mrs. Pike came back into the room after her hall duty ended, the test key was missing. Marshall has a failing grade in Mrs. Pike’s class. Marshall and his best friend Kiara are the only students who scored 100. Marshall stole the exam.
Inductive Reasoning
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
500
“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street.” —W.H. Auden “As I Walked Out One Evening”
What (two) types of figurative language are used in the selection?`
What are
hyperbole and personficiaton?
500
Rhetorical questions can be put into four main categories: Name/Explain ONE?
Aggressive – Implying some sort of threat, challenge or insult.
Sarcastic / Comedic – Often used instead of an answer and highly dependent on tone.
Profound – Where a question that is impossible to answer is asked to provoke thought.
Empathetic – A question which creates empathy and connection between people/groups
500
How does the speaker use rhetoric in the excerpts to support his purpose?
A. The speaker uses description to inform his audience about the space program
B. The speaker uses metaphor to justify the importance of the space program.
C. The speaker uses fear to convince the audience the space program is needed.
D. The speaker uses hyperbole to describe recent advancements of the program.
WHAT IS
B The speaker uses metaphor to justify the importance of the space program.