E10H Rhetorical Devices Concept Check 1
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Elaine Tripp
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By Elaine Tripp
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For the next few days, we're going to do concept checks. These are quick, low stakes assessments that will gauge your ability to identify rhetorical devices.
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Concept Check
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On the next three slides, you'll see a passage from a historically significant speech. Your task is to correctly identify which rhetorical devices are used in the passage. And yes, sometimes there will be more than one correct answer.
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Instructions:
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Multiple Select
What is the rhetorical device shown here?
"...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." -- Abraham Lincoln
Tricolon
Antimetabole
Simile
Anaphora
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Multiple Choice
What is the rhetorical device shown here?
"We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers." --George W. Bush
Tricolon
Epistrophe
Parallelism
Antithesis
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Multiple Choice
What is the rhetorical device shown here?
"We find ourselves rich in goods but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We're torn by division, wanting unity." -- Richard M. Nixon
Anadiplosis
Polysyndeton
Personification
Antithesis
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