Week 6 Quiz

King delivered "I Have a Dream" on 28 August 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial. Here are four illustrative sentences about the speech. Which one is a summary, reporting what the speech says?

Select one.

• King's speech is right about its demand, and every reader in every era should agree with every word of it.
• King uses pathos to make the audience emotional.
• King tells the crowd that the nation made a promise it has not paid and that the time to pay it is now.
• The repeated "now" keeps the demand in the present tense for the crowd.

You are writing a rhetorical analysis of a speech. Where does your own agreement or disagreement with the speech belong?

Select one.

• In a separate response, kept out of the analysis
• In the thesis, so the reader knows your side
• In each body paragraph, right after the effect
• In the conclusion, as the essay's final verdict on whether the speech was right

Which of the four appeals is the appeal to the opportune moment: the occasion, place, and timing that make a text's words fit their audience?

Select one.

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos
• Kairos

A surgeon opens a talk on knee replacement by saying "in my twenty years" of operating (illustrative). Which appeal does that opening lean on most?

Select one.

• Logos, because it gives a reason the audience can follow
• Ethos, because the audience trusts the speaker's experience
• Pathos, because it makes the audience afraid of surgery
• Kairos, because the talk happens at a convenient time

A hardware store's ad for a portable generator appears on residents' phones the morning after a storm knocks out the power (illustrative). Which appeal does the ad lean on most?

Select one.

• Pathos, because losing power is upsetting
• Logos, because generators produce electricity
• Kairos, because its force comes from the timing
• Ethos, because the store is a trusted business

In "I Have a Dream", the phrase "Now is the time" opens four consecutive sentences. Which device is that?

Select one.

• Anaphora
• Antithesis
• Allusion
• Metaphor

King sets "content of their character" against "the color of their skin". Which device is that pairing?

Select one.

• Allusion, because it refers briefly to a famous text the audience already knows
• Antithesis, because it sets two opposed ideas side by side
• Anaphora, because it repeats the same opening words
• Metaphor, because it describes one thing as another

Which of these illustrative sentences about King's speech is analysis rather than a label or a summary?

Select one.

• King uses pathos to make the audience emotional.
• King uses anaphora and metaphor in the speech.
• King talks about the history of the country, the promise it made to its citizens, the march itself, and his dream for the future.
• The repeated "now" lands on the same beat four times, so the crowd hears the demand in the present tense again and again.

True or false: in a rhetorical analysis, a longer quotation from the text makes a stronger analysis than a shorter one.

True or false.

• True
• False

King says the nation signed a "promissory note" and handed back a "bad check" that came back marked "insufficient funds". Select every accurate statement about that figure.

Select every option that applies.

• It is a metaphor that describes a broken promise as a debt.
• It serves logos by framing the demand as a debt that is owed, with pathos in it.
• It is anaphora, because the same words open sentences in a row.
• It is an allusion to the opening of the Gettysburg Address.