Read this excerpt from Common Sense:The Continent hath at this time the largest body of armed and disciplined men of any power under Heaven: and is just arrived at that pitch of strength, in which no single colony is able to support itself, and the whole, when united, is able to do anything.Which is the most prominent kind of rhetorical appeal Thomas Paine uses here?A.LogosB.PersonificationC.Figurative languageD.Pathos

Read the following excerpt from a 1775 speech by Patrick Henry in which he presents his ideas concerning the American colonists' relationship with Great Britain:Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has all been in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not already been exhausted?Which best explains the purpose of the rhetorical device used in this excerpt?A.The metaphor of a storm to represent the monarchy implies that it is powerful and unpredictable.B.The strong appeal to ethos leads the audience to trust and agree with the speaker.C.The repetition of the words "sir" and "throne" emphasize the point that the colonists are subordinate to Great Britain.D.The use of parallelism draws attention to the many peaceful steps the colonists have taken.

Read this excerpt from Common Sense:It is not in the power of Britain to do this continent justice. . . . To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness — There was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease.Which of the following best describes the rhetorical appeals being used?A.A mixture of ethos and pathosB.Mostly pathos; no logos or ethosC.Mostly ethos; no pathos or logosD.A mixture of pathos and logos

Read the first sentence from Patrick Henry's speech:No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House.What appeal does he primarily use here?A.LogosB.MetaphorC.EthosD.DictionSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

In one of the most rousing pamphlets of all time, Thomas Paine expounded on the need for American independence. It was “common sense,” Paine alleged, forging his place in the pantheon of America’s founders alongside such luminaries as Jefferson, Washington, and Adams. However, unlike those three men, Paine did not enjoy celebrity at the time of his death. Instead of being lionized, Paine was vilified by the very same individuals who once passed his pamphlet around as the gospel truth. But it was not Common Sense that got him excommunicated from the American canon; rather, it was his final work, The Age of Reason.To understand The Age of Reason, one needs to understand the context. After the Revolutionary War, Paine returned to his native England before his controversial, pro-French Revolution leanings made him increasingly unpopular. Paine immigrated to France, where he was so revered that he helped draft two separate French constitutions. However, the French Revolution was a far more violent and turbulent conflict than was the American Revolution, with dozens of leaders jockeying for power and killing each other to get it. Paine ended up in prison during one fluctuation of power but turned this vicissitude into an opportunity. It was while he was in prison that Paine wrote The Age of Reason, his religious text.The Age of Reason is not an inherently atheistic text, though that is how it was interpreted. Rather, the text espouses the same religious ideals that defined the Enlightenment, especially those ideals of the French Revolution, with its disestablishment of the Catholic Church as a national institution. Paine returned to America in 1802 and quickly fell out of favor in the new nation. Americans saw The Age of Reason as expressly anti-Christian, even though the actual philosophy of the text is closer to the deism practiced by Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers. But America of 1802 was very different from the America of the Revolution, as the Second Great Awakening was just rising. In this new, devoutly Protestant nation, men like Paine were not welcome, nor would have men like Jefferson been, if Jefferson had not adapted to the times and modified his public statements on religion. Jefferson, unlike Paine, had the good sense—politically speaking—to not publish his religious beliefs. Thus, Jefferson, unlike Paine, was able to publicly, at least, keep up with the times. Paine, on the other hand, was ostracized and denied the corridors of political power he had once helped make possible.Ultimately, Paine was punished for being an anachronism in a world that passed him by. In 1809, Paine died in New York, largely forgotten and certainly not celebrated. And today, while Americans commemorate Common Sense, most schoolchildren know nothing of the man who wrote it.Hitchens, Christopher. Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2006. Book.Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine: Political Writings. Ed. Bruce Kuklick. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Book.SubmitWhich of the following summarizes the author’s principal explanation for Paine’s unpopularity at the time of his death?AHe had betrayed the ideals of his own and his adopted countries.BHe was explicitly atheistic at a time of religious fervor.CHe was the relic of an earlier era of religious thought.DHe was associated with the equally unpopular Thomas Jefferson.EHe was viewed as a criminal because of his imprisonment in France.

Read this line from Patrick Henry's speech:We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth – and listen to the song of the siren till she transforms us into beasts.What two rhetorical strategies does he most clearly use here?A.He uses personification to appeal to ethos.B.He uses parallelism to build pathos.C.He uses metaphor to appeal to pathos.D.He uses simile to emphasize logos.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS