Rhetorical strategy/devices | literary devices | Tone | Ethos, Pathos, Logos | N/A |
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What type of rhetorical strategy is "the strength, courage, ingenuity, and desperation of neither boxer have been adequately measured"
what is diction
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Is this tone positive or negative? "Boxing today is very different form the king of the past, so savagely and senselessly struck in the head with countless unanswered blows that he died in a coma 10 days later"
What is Negative
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Which one is this quote? "Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 17, 1942, grandson of a slave, began boxing at the age of twelve"
What is Logos
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What type of literary device is "he floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee"
What is simile
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What word best describes the tone that is shown? "These hard won victories began irreversible loss: progressive deterioration of Ali's kidneys, hands, reflexes, and stamina. Ali was advised to retire."
What is Depressing or synonyms of it
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What type of rhetorical strategy is "Professional boxing is the only major American sport whose primary, and often murderous, energies"
what is diction
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What word best describes the tone that is shown? "Why he will devote himself to the rigors of training in a sport in which, literally, one's entire career can end within few seconds"
What is Disapproving or synonyms of it
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Which one is this quote? "He repudiated his “slave name” of Cassius Marcellus Clay to become Muhammad Ali (a name which, incidentally, The New York Times, among other censorious white publications, would not honor through the 1960s).
What is Logos
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Which one is this quote? “I’ve had twenty-eight fights and twenty-eight wins. I ain’t never been stopped”
What is Logos
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What type of rhetorical strategy is "Is there a moral distinction between the spectacle of black slaves in the old south being forced by temporary blacks fighting for multi-million dollar paydays, for TV coverage from Las Vegas and Atlantic city?"(this type of rhetorical device we DID not learn)
what is Comparison
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