Rhetorical Devices and Appeals

When someone uses data, facts, and logic they’re trying to appeal to

• Ethos
• Logos 
• Pathos

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CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.SL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.1B

"As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results."

This is an example of:

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

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CCSS.SL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.1B

Which of these describes ETHOS?

• Uses common values, famous people, or trustworthy people.
• Uses imagery that appeals to the heart.
• Uses common sense.
• Uses personality.

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CCSS.RI.8.8

"when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has been advertised on television"

This quote is an example of:

• pathos

• ethos

• metaphor

• allusion

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement"

This is an example of:

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

• Anecdote

" I gradually gained a bit of satisfaction from being considered an extremist. Was not Jesus an extremist in love?...Will we be extremists for hate or extremists for love?

This is an example of:

• Anaphora

• Anecdote

• Metaphor

• Repetition

"Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will"

This is an example of:

• Antithesis

• Anecdote

• Imagery

• Metaphor

"The white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time"

This is an example of:

• Anecdote

• Antithesis

• Imagery

• Anaphora

"Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will"

This is an example of:

• Metaphor

• Antithesis

• Ethos

• Imagery

" If this philosophy had not emerged, I am convinced that by now many streets of the South would be flowing with floods of blood"

This is an example of:

• Imagery and pathos

• Metaphor and ethos

• Anecdote and logos