English 11 (American Lit) quiz: Rhetorical analysis

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What this quiz should check

Topic: Rhetorical analysis of a speech or essay (RI.11-12.6). A good English 11 (American Lit) quiz on this asks students to:

• Determine an author's purpose and point of view in a text where the rhetoric is especially effective
• Analyze how style and content (diction, structure, appeals) contribute to persuasiveness
• Describe the rhetorical situation: speaker, audience, purpose and context
• Support analysis with specific quoted evidence

Misconceptions worth a question

• Listing appeals ("this is pathos") without explaining their effect
• Summarizing the text instead of analyzing the author's choices
• Ignoring the original audience and context

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