Rhetorical Appeals and Reasoning

Which rhetorical appeal is primarily based on the credibility and character of the speaker or writer?

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

• Kairos

An advertisement says: "9 out of 10 dentists recommend this toothpaste." Which type of rhetorical appeal is being used?

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Inductive Reason

Which rhetorical appeal targets the audience's emotions?

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

• Deductive Reasoning

A political candidate talks about their humble beginnings and hard work to connect with voters. This is an example of:

• Logos

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Metaphor

A speaker uses statistics and facts to support their argument. This is an example of:

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Simile

Which type of rhetorical appeal is used in this example:

"This year's flu season looks worse than usual. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warned last week that the dominant influenza virus right now, H3N2, typically signals a severe flu season, resulting in more deaths and hospital trips than average. Even worse: About half of the H3N2 viruses detected so far are different strains from the ones included in this year's vaccine, which means flu shots will be less effective."

• Metaphor

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Which type of rhetorical appeal is used in this example:

We have, therefore, in this Island today a very large and powerful military force. This force comprises all our best-trained and our finest troops, including scores of thousands of those who have already measured their quality against the Germans and found themselves at no disadvantage. We have under arms at the present time in this Island over a million and a quarter men.

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos

Which type of rhetorical appeal is used in this example:

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

Which type of rhetorical appeal is used in this example:

Tallying the total cost of flu is difficult. In a 2007 article published in the journal Vaccine, CDC researchers put the total economic burden at $87 billion annually, in 2003 dollars, counting a statistical measure that puts a dollar value on lost life. Among the costs: 3.1 million days patients spend in hospitals, 10 times as many doctors visits, and 44 million days of missed work.

• Logos

• Ethos

• Pathos

Which type of rhetorical appeal is used in this example:

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the

gunwales of barges and small boats. . . . Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos