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Rhetoric Quiz 136 (60 MCQs)

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1. You should choose a topic to write about before considering your rhetorical situation or assignment requirements.
2. The arrangement of words
3. To speak at the right moment, with the right purpose
4. Logical fallacy is .....
5. A rhetorical device where the speaker or writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it to increase its worth and understandability
6. This form of appeal deals with emotions, sentiments, and memories, persuading by relating to the audience's feelings.
7. When typing the Works Cited for an image, which of the following is italicized?
8. Several parts of a sentence or several sentences expressed in similar grammatical form to show that the ideas are equal in importance. Can add balance, rhythm and emphasis to ideas. (Often occurs with anaphora, epistrophe and/or juxtaposition.)
9. What is one reason Thomas Paine believes that the youth of the colonies is an advantage against Britain?
10. A list of three, or a sentence in which there are three parts or clauses.
11. What does compassion mean?
12. A dog is waiting for you, sad and alone, in a cage at a shelter. Adopt today.
13. Ethos is the way a writer or speaker
14. When you base your argument on emotions, you are using
15. A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. Can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar. Can also make writing more vivid, imaginative, or intellectually engaging. Ex. "Structure of an atom is like a solar system. Nucleus is the sun and electrons are the planets revolving around their sun."
16. What is a participle?
17. "Money is the root of all evil:poverty is the fruit of all goodness." is an example of Antithesis
18. Exceptions to claims that indicate the degree of certainty for the claim.
19. A man at the car dealership implores the salesman to offer the best price on a new car because he needs to support his young family is an example of
20. "his mother, his father, his small sister"
21. This appeal encourages the reader / viewer to do the right thing out of a sense of right and without expecting anything in return.
22. The Center for Disease Control advises everyone to get a flu vaccination. What is the main type of rhetoric being used?
23. What words do we use to describe a word's connotation?
24. The rhetorical situation consists of
25. An audience that is not physically present, but that is affected by the speaker's message.
26. What is NOT a reason a country might use propaganda?
27. Types of writing such as letters, reports, memos, poems, and blogs are ..... of writing.
28. He is known as an inventor, speaker, and for his aphorisms.
29. Is an explicit reference to a particular meaning or to the various meanings of a word, in order to remove or prevent ambiguity
30. The author's credibility in a piece of rhetoric
31. Sure, we haven't given raises in over five years to our employees, but we work really hard to make a good product. We try to ensure the best customer service, too.
32. The suits took more from him during the hearing than his wife would after the divorce.
33. The motivation for the discourse
34. Intention is .....
35. Repetition is used in the quote below from The Declaration of Independence. What is its purpose/use? "Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends."
36. Rhetorical technique of setting up a false choice using two extremes.
37. Placing two things side by side so as to highlight their DIFFERENCES
38. He is considered the founder of shorthand
39. The advil ad uses what kind of appeal?
40. Arguing that since something is popular and everyone is doing it, you should as well
41. What is the definition of Tone for Rhetoric?
42. What does the following paradox most likely mean? "I close my eyes so that I can see."
43. Blaming or exaggerating someone's argument or another organization to prove a point
44. If you are prosperous, you are
45. Repetition of conjunctions in close succession
46. New word or a new use for an old word, or the act of making up new words
47. What is the meaning associated with a word?
48. Scientific studies have shown that by simply repeating something, your audience is more likely to .....
49. The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect. [It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom.]
50. Why does Granholm continuously return to the metaphor of Rosa parks as a warrior in "Remembering Rosa parks" ?
51. Telling a story in order to support a thesis
52. Persuasive strategy is the opinion of the author.
53. Writer/speaker gets emotion going, pulls on the heart strings, makes emotional connection to persuade (feel patriotic, scared, hopeful, nostalgic).
54. What is the definition of the logical fallacy, post hoc?
55. What does pathos involve to persuade?
56. "I always got to worry 'bout the paybackSome buck that I roughed up way backComin' back after all these years" -2Pac
57. (Also called the "turning point" in thestory). The main conflict in the story is resolved andthe protagonist changes. (The reader will "see" a shiftor change in the main character).
58. Pathos is the appeal that uses .....
59. Police respond five times faster with Safe House home security system than the other leading brands.
60. When embedding quotes, I want to remember to .....
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