Rhetorical Devices and Appeals

The "target audience"

• Pathos

• Repetition

• Intended Audience

• Call to action

States what a rhetor is trying to prove

• Antithesis

• Counterclaim

• Claim

• Opposition

Saying the same thing in different words (ex: This is your mission - the thing you have come here to do).

• Repetition

• Antithesis

• Restatement

• Parallelism

What Rhetorical Appeal is used here? "If you're still unsure, please consider that my advanced degree and awards for my work speak for themselves."

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?"98% of patients who take Medicine A reported no side effects and tested negative for the disease.

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?

"You will never be satisfied in life if you don’t seize this opportunity. Do you want to live the rest of your years thinking about what would have happened if you just jumped when you had the chance?"

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?

Anyone who cherishes life in all its forms could not help being outraged by the mistreatment of laboratory animals. The so-called scientists who run the labs are evil.

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?

According to a study by CNN, 28% of teenagers report that they could manage without a TV.

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

What Rhetorical Appeal is used here? Heavy use of the internet may contribute to the international tendency toward breadth rather than depth of knowledge. Using those most essential skills—pointing and clicking—our brightest minds may now never encounter, much less read, the works of Aristotle, Shakespeare, or Steinbeck.

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

What technique is employed in the following example? Angel asked, "How can we live in a world without death metal?"

• Hypophora

• Rhetorical Question

• Analogy

• Restatement