Rhetorical Devices and Persuasive Techniques Quiz

_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

__________________ means: two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

• apposition

• antimetabole

• parallelism

• antithesis

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

• anthimeria

• parallelism

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

• antithesis

• parallelism

• apposition

• epistrophe

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

• parallelism

• apposition

• asyndeton

• antithesis

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote: "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?"

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

• anthimeria

• antithesis

What is the persuasive technique known as ethos?

• A reference to religion, mythology, historical events, pop culture, literature, etc

• ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.

• emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions

• appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason

What is allusion?

• A reference to religion, mythology, historical events, pop culture, literature, etc.

• he repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words. ____________ is fun to say and enjoyable to hear, and it’s used to call attention to certain words.

• A rhetorical technique in which the writer emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form.

• A classic technique in presentation and speech making. It helps tie the theme together, and it creates clarity for the listener. Additionally, we remember words and phrases more readily when they are packaged in threes.

What is pathos?

• appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.

• emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions

• ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.

• appeal to one's social group or community

What is the persausive technique known as logos?

• appeal using a company's visual symbol

• appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.

• ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.

• emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions