Assess students' ability to identify and explain rhetorical strategies (ethos, pathos, logos, repetition, parallelism, rhetorical questions) and common logical fallacies (ad hominem, straw man, false dilemma, slippery slope, hasty generalization) in brief excerpts from contemporary political speeches; include item types for identification, short justification with textual evidence, and a comparative analysis question evaluating persuasive effect and credibility.