Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
What type of rhetorical device is used here?
"Based on the dozens of archaeological expeditions I've made all over the world, I am confident that those potsherds are Mesopotamian in origin."
Ethos
What is the highest possible score you can get on the rhetorical analysis essay?
Six
What are the hidden _______?
Motives
“Miss Bolo…went home in a flood of tears and a sedan chair.” -Charles Dickens (Pickwick Papers)
Zeugma
What type of appeal is used here?
“Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.”—Martin Luther King Jr.
Pathos
How much time is generally allotted to complete the rhetorical analysis essay?
40 minutes
What is the author’s _________?
Argument
All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, I am mortal. -Socrates
Syllogism
What type of rhetorical device is exhibited in the following passage?
"Research compiled by analysts from NASA, as well as organizations from five other nations with space programs, suggests that a moon colony is viable with international support."
Logos
What percentage of the AP Language and Composition Exam scoring does the rhetorical analysis make up?
18%
Who is the targeted ________?
“He has sandy hair, sandy mustache, sandy complexion--is altogether one of the sandiest men I ever saw, so to speak: is a tall, stoop-shouldered, middle-aged, lowering-browed, intense-eyed, irascible man, and looks like he might have his little prejudices and partialities” -Mark Twain
Caricature
What type of rhetorical device is used in the following passage?
"Better men than us have fought and died to preserve this great nation. Now is our turn to return the favor. For God and country, gentlemen!"
Pathos
Of the three essays that are in Section II of the exam, is the rhetorical analysis the first, second, or third?
Second
What effect does the __________ have on the reader?
Composition
“And as you tell it, it spreads. And as it spreads, not only is the security of the United States assisted, but the cause of freedom." -John F. Kennedy (Address on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America)
Anadiplosis
What type of appeal is used here?
"I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."
Ethos
What is the full name of the exam which the rhetorical analysis essay is part of?
AP Language and Composition Exam
What _______ is being used by the author? Is it ________?
Strategy, Persuasive
Shortly after two o’clock on June 3rd, 1769, Venus descended into the plane of the ecliptic and came between the Earth and sun. -(ALON)
Periodic sentence