LA 8th Annotation+Rhetorical Devices Quiz Flashcards
What is Alliteration?
The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of several words in sequence.
What is Allusion?
A short reference to a familiar person, place, thing or event
What is Anaphora?
The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences.
What is Metaphor?
A comparison of two different things by speaking about one in terms of the other.
Not using like or as.
What is Parallelism?
A list of successive words or phrases with the same or very similar grammatical structure.
What is Simile?
The comparison of two unlike things by using the words “like or “as.”
What is Ethos?
Appeal to authority and credibility
A well known person talking
What is Pathos?
Appeal to emotions
Sad dog commercials is an example.
What is Logos?
Appeal to logic and fact
Using facts and logic to prove a point.
Rhetorical Device?
“Let freedom ring…Let freedom ring…Let freedom ring!”
Anaphora
“Mighty Mountains”
Rhetorical Device?
Alliteration
Rhetorical Device?
“It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.”
Parallelism
Rhetorical Device?
This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the ‘unalienable Right’ of ‘Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness.’”
Allusion
“He will not be satisfied until ‘justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a might dream.’”
Rhetorical Device?
Simile
“The state of Mississippi…will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.”
Rhetorical Device?
Metaphor
