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Rhetoric Quiz 137 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who is the person receiving the message?
2. The repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order; for example "I know what I like, and I like what I know."
3. A response to a counterargument in a debate or opinion essay.
4. I told you a million times ..... it's exaggeration
5. Sad dog commercials appeal to your .....
6. Kids should be allowed to have candy in school. This statement is a
7. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
8. When analyzing an advertisement, what items should we pay attention to?
9. Correctional facility
10. "Our words seem small beside the loss you have endured."
11. When the author writes to a person directly, they are using
12. "The sweet smell of success."
13. What kind of figurative language is this:My shoes smell like garbage.
14. What is an assumption?
15. Organization of informationusing spatial cues such as top to bottom, left to right, etc.
16. Someone can choose to give an action or an object symbolic value, even though it was not intended as part of the message
17. What might make you question this woman's point?Soldier: "I'm a veteran, and I say our country's only choice right now is to go to war."
18. Be careful if you're going to go that route. I've heard that it can be very dangerous!
19. A situation that requires a person to decide between two equally attractive or equally unattractive alternatives.
20. Rhetorical device that uses a repetitive sentence structure to build momentum and intensity
21. What is the figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by 'like' or 'as'?
22. "Life is but a walking shadow; a poor player ..... " This is an example of a .....
23. To identify this rhetorical device, look for the speaker/writer to use data, facts, statistics, and events to support the claim.
24. Read this sentence from Common Sense:The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.What rhetorical strategy is Thomas Paine most clearly using in this line?
25. Saying "put to sleep" instead of "euthanize" would be an example of .....
26. Latin for "to the man, " this fallacy refers to the specific diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker.
27. Which rhetorical device relies on facts and evidence to support arguments?
28. In "The Emancipation Proclamation, " Lincoln delivers his central message about how all the people held as slaves in the Confederacy are freed in his opening paragraph, then repeats it in paragraph 5. Which rhetorical device is that?
29. What is the effect of polysyndeton?
30. I went walking with my friends to the pond to do some swimming. What rhetoric is being used here?
31. The tone of a speech can often experience shifts throughout.
32. In rhetoric, an appeal to the audience's sense of logic
33. Same word or words is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences
34. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
35. Which of the following is NOT a literary characteristic of the Enlightenment Era?
36. Which of the following is NOT a major component to rhetorical analysis?
37. The rhetorical situation collectively refers to the speaker, audience, context, exigence, rhetorical choices, rhetorical appeals, and tone.
38. "Life is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly."
39. "A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night."
40. Read the question.Answer TRUE if it is Rhetorical.Answer FALSE if it is not Rhetorical.Question:Do you know what time it is?
41. Substitution of one word for another which it suggests
42. Television Advertisement:Get all of your stains out by using new and improved Ultra Suds and wash your blues away!
43. Tells why. This makes someone care and tells the importance of the claim and the argument.
44. The art of persuasive originated in
45. Who failed to see that rhetoric could be used by someone whose goal is to deceive?
46. The gathering of evidence to form a conclusion is called
47. Descriptive language that is used to appeal to a reader's senses is called .....
48. Common conjunctions used in polysyndeton include:
49. The couple decided against divorce and chose ..... instead.
50. Writing techniques used to persuade/influence the audience.
51. Which appeal uses INTELLIGENCE to persuade?
52. Rhetorical Devicea question posed for effect, not requiring an answer
53. The internal characteristics of the speech are those that can be seen by the audience (auditorium) to which the speaker is addressing.
54. A form of word play in which words have a double meaning
55. They are doing a bit of their construction these days and of course, there'll be a lot of noise.
56. The junior college is a better place to attend school for the first two years of post secondary school than a university or a 4-year college.
57. What literary device is being used in the following passage from "What to the Slave":Pride and patriotism prompt you to celebrate and hold in perpetual remembrance."
58. What makes up the rhetorical triangle?
59. "The student was a sea of troubles."
60. TRUE or FALSE ..... The length of a sentence and how it's paired with sentences of different or similar lengths makes NO impact on the meaning, emotion, or emphasis of a passage.
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