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Rhetoric Quiz 36 (60 MCQs)

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1. I speak not from ignorance, but from experience.
2. Identify the type of figurative language being used:"What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!"
3. This means to repeat words or concepts in reverse order. For example, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" (Kennedy).
4. What main problem does King address in the speech?
5. A figure of speech where there is a question with an immediate answer.
6. The art of using words to persuade in writing or speaking
7. An attack on one's opponent, rather than the opponent's argument
8. Terrible physical or mental pain
9. Which of the following Oscar Wilde statements is a paradox?
10. Anecdotes are when an author, speaker, or advertiser .....
11. Deep sea fishing is more fun than course fishing.
12. When discussing parts of stories, what is the meaning of antithesis?
13. Media strives to fulfill three purposes. What are they?
14. I am also grateful that he and Mrs. Abe were so kind to me last night at dinner when I accidentally ate a large portion of wasabi. I had never tasted anything like this! My eyes started to water and I struggled to keep my composure in front of this distinguished company. But they were very kind to me!
15. Example:the wind whispered her name
16. A ..... is any stylistic device or resource of language that an author or speaker uses to help persuade or make a desired impact on his/her audience.
17. Playing on the readers' emotions is called .....
18. Which of these is not a rhetorical choice?
19. Melissa, her curls not entirely shaken, turned away.
20. Which of the following is the definition of an anecdote
21. The act of position close together or side by side different items or ideas that seem out of place to one another. Example "Feather or lead, fiend angelical."
22. A question asked to make a point rather than get an answer
23. What is the Latin name for introduction in the six parts of classical rhetoric?
24. When you compare a characteristic of two things us 'like' or 'as'
25. Dialect of a particular region
26. Appeal to credibility
27. Which is NOT a purpose for writing:
28. A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses
29. The M&M store is similar to the Garden of Eden.
30. Jeff is preparing to create a commercial for a new energy drink. He visits a local high school and surveys students in an English class about their beverage preferences. The majority of the class says they prefer grape flavored drinks, so Jeff tells his superiors that grape is the flavor favored most by high school students. What error in reasoning has Jeff made?
31. The use of words to highlight a double meaning, usually a humorous one
32. Henry:Pierce, are you scared? / Hawkeye:Don't be silly. I'm too frightened to be scared.
33. An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up "Shoot yourself in the foot" is an example that means to do something that hurts yourself.
34. "But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change." What type of persuasive rhetoric is being used?
35. Writing code for applications and websites requires a lot of complexity to be stored in the programmers mind at any one time.
36. The speaker, subject, and audience are components of the .....
37. To inform, to persuade, to entertain, to suggest are examples of .....
38. Type of appeal:Listerine is recommended by most dental professionals
39. "You have been the veterans of creative suffering." This is an example of which rhetorical device?
40. An appeal to logic. When the speaker draw upon statistics, credible sources, arguments premised on reason, and the inherent logic of a situation.
41. "Life is a highway." (Tom Cochrane)
42. What is Aristotle's rhetorical triangle?
43. Satirical or humorous use of a word or phrase to covey an idea exactly opposite to its real significance.
44. Appeals to ethics, gives credibility to the speaker
45. Repetition is when a word, phrase, or idea is intentionally used or referenced over and over
46. Psychologist who developed the "hierarchy of needs"; lower-level needs (food, shelter, safety) control an individual's motivations and must be met before higher-level needs (love, accomplishment, destiny) can be addressed.
47. "Listen, and let me be clear ..... "
48. A flaw in reasoning ..... are like tricks or illusions of thought, and they're often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people.
49. Why might an environmental essayist juxtapose a landfill and a wilderness?
50. Garrison wants the slave population to have the same inalienable rights defined in the Declaration of Independence as white people have.
51. The ironic minimizing of fact; presents something as less significant than it is
52. Of Which sentence is this an example? Dr. Martin Luther King argues in his "I have a dream" (1963) speech that all people should have the exact same rights as others.
53. A figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite
54. An extended, figurative comparison used to illustrate a point is a called a/an
55. Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines."Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition! (King John, II, i)
56. A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. Independent, or main, it expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. If it's dependent, or subordinate, it cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independent. The point that you want to consider is the question of what or why the author subordinates one element to the other.
57. Which of these describes Kairos?
58. The following is an example of what?How a Doctor Diagnoses Diseases are Like How a Detective Investigates Crimes
59. BONUS:If you're trying to use a PATHOS appeal, which canon will be most effective for you to focus on?
60. Which of the following sentences is a compound sentence?
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