Arrmstrong Rhetorical Unit Test

Read the following lines from MLK, Jr’s I Have a Dream:

"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest—quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed."

The use of the repetitive phrase “go back…” is an example of what rhetorical device?

• epistrophe

• anadiplosis

• anaphora

• polysyndeton

Using the following lines from MLK, Jr’s I Have a Dream:

"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest—quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed."

Which rhetorical appeal is most dominant in this passage?

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

Read the following lines from MLK, Jr’s I Have a Dream:

"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest—quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed."

What effect does the above rhetorical appeal have on the audience?

• It makes the audience feel a certain emotion.

• It shows MLK Jr. as a credible source.

• It uses facts and statistics to form a logical argument.

From Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball speech

Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I’m lucky. Who wouldn’t consider it an honour to have known Jacob Ruppert?

What rhetorical device is being used in the above passage?

• hyperbole

• rhetorical question

• euphemism

• metaphor

From Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball speech

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it’s a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed – that’s the finest I know.

This underlined portion contains what rhetorical device?

• parallelism

• understatement

• metaphor

• metonymy

From Nelson Mandela's speech as the first black president of South Africa

Let there be justice for all.

Let there be peace for all.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

What two rhetorical devices is being used in this passage?

• anaphora and alliteration

• personification and understatement

• anaphora and epistrophe

From Ronald Reagan's speech about the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy...

We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”

What rhetorical device is used in the underlined phrases? Instead of saying "they are dead" or "they died in an explosion", he uses the more gentle description of the underlined phrases.

• metonymy

• alliteration

• anaphora

• euphemism

Conjunctions (and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas

• anadiplosis

• understatement

• polysyndeton

• simile

The general who became a slave; the slave who became a gladiator; the gladiator who defied an Emperor. ~Gladiator 2000

What rhetorical device is demonstrated in the passage?

• anadiplosis

• rhetorical question

• anaphora

• epistrophe

A reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.

• anaphora

• alliteration

• anadiplosis

• allusion