Rhetorical Analysis Test

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12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
15 mins • 10 pts
Why does John F. Kennedy open his speech with the following lines?
"We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance."
Mark all that apply.
To create a feeling of pride in the audience.
To show appreciation to the college.
To establish ethos and a sense of credibility.
To establish some rapport with the audience.
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MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 10 pts
Why does Kennedy take his listeners on a whirlwind tour of scientific progress in this speech?
Mark all that apply.
To establish his mastery of the subject.
To establish ethos as an authority on the subject.
To build up his audience.
To create a sense of national pride.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 10 pts
Which rhetorical appeal does Kennedy employ in the following passage?
“But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour.
Pathos
Ethos
Logos
Kairos
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MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 10 pts
Kennedy refers to himself and the audience as ‘we’ around 46 times throughout the speech. What is the speaker's purpose for using the word "we" so many times?
Mark all that apply.
He is establishing an emotional/pathos argument.
He prefers not to use the first person "I".
He is taking the audience on an emotional journey with him.
He wants to establish that he and the audience are in this together.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 10 pts
Which rhetorical device is used by the speaker in the following line?
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.”
Anaphora
Epistrophe
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 10 pts
Which rhetorical device does the speaker employ in the following line from the speech?
"Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war…"
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Imagery
7.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 10 pts
What was the historical context, the occasion, and purpose for this speech?
Mark all that apply
to persuade the audience to invest in Nasa exploration.
He wanted us to build a rocket.
To inform the audience how the NASA program was doing and the advancements thus far.
The United States was in a "space race" with Russia; we were competing to see which country would get to the moon first.
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