The Art of Persuasion: Rhetorical Devices & Persuasive Appeals

What rhetorical device is being used here?

Uniforms are uncomfortable, hot, and restricting.

• Rhetorical Question

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Rule of Three

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What rhetorical device(s) is/are being used here?

Our planet is sadly suffering.

• Repetition

• Rhetorical Question

• Alliteration

• Inclusive Language

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What rhetorical device(s) is/are being used in the following sentence:

How would you feel if it happened to you?

• Repetition

• Rhetorical Question

• Rule of Three

• Inclusive Language

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

Which words are examples of emotive language?

The poor exhausted students tried to complete the task.

• poor

• students

• exhausted

• tried

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

Match the following definition to its term:

When three adjectives or phrases are used together to emphasize a point.

• Inclusive language

• Alliteration

• Rule of Three

• Emotive Langauge

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

Match the following definition to its term:

Using words that make people feel sad, angry, upset, sympathetic or guilty.

• Emotive Language

• Repetition

• Inclusive Language

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

Match the following definition to its term:

Using words like "we", "you", "our", and "us" to make your audience think you are talking only to them.

• Inclusive Language

• Emotive Langauge

• Rule of Three

• Rhetorical Question

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Match the following definition to its term:

Repeating the consonant sounds at the beginning of words to make your point stand out.

• Emotive Language

• Alliteration

• Inclusive Language

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

Match the following definition to its term:

Unanswered questions that get the audience thinking.

• Emotive Questions

• Inclusive Questions

• Rhetorical Questions

• Repetitive Questions

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

What technique is being used by Unicef?

• Emotive Language

• Logos

• Ethos

• Inclusive Language

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5