Exam: 04.09 Appealing Rhetoric
Exam: 04.09 Appealing Rhetoric
Student Name: Nolan Sisson
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Question 1(Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)
(04.09 MC)
Read the following excerpt from President John F. Kennedy's "We Choose to Go to the Moon" speech. Then, answer the question that follows.
We have felt the ground shake and the air shattered by the testing of a Saturn C-1 booster rocket, many times as powerful as the Atlas which launched John Glenn, generating power equivalent to 10,000 automobiles with their accelerators on the floor. We have seen the site where the F-1 rocket engines, each one as powerful as all eight engines of the Saturn combined, will be clustered together to make the advanced Saturn missile, assembled in a new building to be built at Cape Canaveral as tall as a 48-story structure, as wide as a city block, and as long as two lengths of this field.
Which rhetorical appeal is Kennedy using to persuade the audience to change their perspective on space exploration?
Ethos: he is using expert testimony to provide credibility to his argument
Logos: he is using facts to convince them of the need to fund a space program
Pathos: he is using emotion to urge the audience of the need to explore space
None: he is simply using his opinion
Question 2(Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)
(04.09 MC)
Read the following excerpt from President John F. Kennedy's "We Choose to Go to the Moon" speech. Then, answer the question that follows.
I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
Which rhetorical device does Kennedy use to support his argument?
Antithesis: he is contrasting space with fires
Figurative language: he is using alliteration and an idiom to calm the audience about the space race
Irony: he is saying the opposite of what he means about fires
Rhetorical question: he issues a statement about fire in the form of a question
Question 3(Multiple Choice Worth 2 points)
(04.09 MC)
Read the following excerpt from President John F. Kennedy's "We Choose to Go to the Moon" speech. Then, answer the question that follows.
And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs.
Which rhetorical device does Kennedy use to support his argument?
Antithesis: he is contrasting space with babies
Figurative language: he is using personification to explain the newness of the idea of space exploration
Irony: he is saying the opposite of what he means about infancy
Rhetorical question: he issues a statement about space in the form of a question
