Rhetorical Devices
Oratory Boretory
Rhetorical Devices II
Speeches of Rhetoric
100
________ is the rhetorical term that consists of three parallel clauses, phrases, or words, which happen to come in quick succession without any interruption.
Tricolon
100
_____ is persuasion based on emotion
Pathos
100
I wanted to jump off of a bridge after I took that math test.
Hyperbole
100
Who said the "I have a dream" speech, and what rhetorical device/devices is this phrase in the speech
MLK, anaphora
200
Epistrophe is . . .
the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
200
Logos is . . .
persuasion based on logic or reason
200
the repeated use on one word as different parts of speech
Polyptoton
200
Who said "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.", and what rhetorical device is this.
JFK, chiasmus
300
Anadiplosis is . . .
a device in which the last word or phrase of one clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next.
300
These are examples of which rhetorical appeal
Five score years ago . . .
Now is the time . . .
kairos
300
“Let us not negotiate from fear but let us not fear to negotiate.”
What rhetorical device is this an example of?
Antimetabole/Chiasmus
300
In Elanor Roosavelt’s Pearl Harbor radio address on Dec. 7, 1941, she says, “We know what we have to face and we know that we are ready to face it”. Name the two rhetorical devices used in this sentence.
Anaphora, parallel structure
400
Litotes
400
Name a type of logical fallacy, and give an example
bandwagon, Ad hominem, slippery slope, etc.
400
Synecdoche is . . .
a rhetorical device where the whole is represented by naming one of its parts
400
Who said this and what rhetorical devices are being used? “We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a State noted for strength, and we stand for all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of fear and hope, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance.”
JFK, Broadening, antithesis, triplet, alliteration