6)
What is kairos?

an appeal to the concept of time or place
an appeal to emotions through details or examples
an appeal to authority or credible sources
an appeal to logic through evidence and reasons
7)
Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato

And with such a diet they may be expected to live in peace and health to a good old age, and bequeath a similar life to their children after them.

Yes, Socrates, he said, and if you were providing for a city of pigs, how else would you feed the beasts?

Which rhetorical device is used in this excerpt?

asyndeton
metonymy
rhetorical question
synecdoche
8)
Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato.

But in reality justice was such as we were describing, being concerned however, not with the outward man, but with the inward, which is the true self and concernment of man: for the just man does not permit the several elements within him to interfere with one another, or any of them to do the work of others,—he sets in order his own inner life, and is his own master and his own law, and at peace with himself.

Which rhetorical device is used in the underlined portion of the excerpt?

asyndeton
antithesis
chiasmus
synecdoche
9)
Which statement is an example of abductive reasoning?

The park near my apartment hosts a tulip festival every year, so the flowers must be pretty.
A coffee mug I bought from that store broke very easily, so all of the store’s cups must be fragile.
Curly parsley is an herb, and herbs are plants, so curly parsley must be a plant.
The restaurant has over a thousand positive reviews, so it must have good food.
10)
Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit.

My message is that we’ll be watching you.

This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!

You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

Which type of rhetorical device is used in this excerpt?

pathos, because the language used emphasizes the personal nature of the damage that the audience is causing
logos, because the speaker uses facts to support her conclusion that the audience is intentionally harming others
kairos, because the speaker emphasizes how important it is for the audience to immediately address problems in the environment
ethos, because the speaker highlights her qualifications to authoritatively address the audience about how they have neglected to protect the environment