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Rhetorical Devices

Matching: Read each example. Identify which type of rhetorical device is being used. Write your answer on the line provided.

Rhetorical question Pathos Parallel structure Sound Patterns (alliteration/assonance) Contrast Imagery (description/figurative language) Rule of 3 Repetition Hyperbole Anecdote Allusion

1. “What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means ‘no difference.’ A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil.” (Elie Wiesel) ______

2. “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” (MLK, Jr.) ______

3. “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.” (MLK, Jr.) ______

4. “Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss.” (Ronald Reagan) ______

5. “So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.” (Lyndon B. Johnson) ______

6. “As I was leaving the hotel this morning, a doorman asked me, ‘Where are you bound for, General?’ And when I replied, ‘West Point,’ he remarked, ‘Beautiful place. Have you ever been there before?’” (General Douglas MacArthur) ______7. “It will be our wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall involve and permit henceforth no secret understandings of any kind.” (Woodrow Wilson) ______

8. “I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day?” (Lou Gehrig) ______

9. We loved him as a brother, and as a father, and as a son. (Edward M. Kennedy) ______

10. “Man, the handiwork of God, comes first; money, the handiwork of man, is of inferior importance. Man is the master, money the servant, but upon all important questions today Republican legislation tends to make money the master and man the servant.” (William Jennings Bryan) ______

11. “We know that every advance that woman has made in the last half century has been made with opposition, all of which has been based upon the grounds of immorality.” (Margaret Sanger) ______