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Rhetoric Quiz 58 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the difference in context and exigence?
2. State the device used in the quote "Sally sells seashells by the seashore."
3. A commercial shows an image of a happy couple riding in a Corvette.
4. Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience.
5. Define the root:Cred
6. Written words are expressed by another person, not the author himself.
7. A rhetorical device that uses a clever, universal quote
8. The art of using persuasive language
9. The art of persuasion is know as
10. A purpose that wants to convince the reader to agree with the speaker's argument
11. What does rhetorical analysis help us understand?
12. A rhetoric emotional appeal is also known as what?
13. The state of being free from public attention or scrutiny
14. The pervading impression made on the feelings of the reader
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16. Rhetoric is a device used in
17. This same quote is an example of which appeal? "I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the state, but my pity does not extend so far as her putting a man's life at stake ..... " (Lee 271).
18. Which figure of speech is used to express the opposite of what is literally stated?
19. What type of sentence is this?The group explores innovative ways to handle the volume and variety ofplastics used in the community.
20. When a statement is deliberately expressed idea as less important than it actually is .....
21. Pulled away or detached from logic
22. What is the definition of the logical fallacy, red herring?
23. Imagine you're a marketing genius! Which secret weapon of persuasion would you use in your advertising campaign to build credibility and trust?
24. A comparison of two unlike things using a form of the verb to be.
25. Immediately, especially in a brusquely imperious way
26. A trope in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
27. Which rhetorical appeal is based on logic and reasoning?
28. The following is the use of what rhetorical device?"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
29. The time and place an argument occurs:
30. "everything like Mercury, the voice and the color and the yellow hair and the beautiful limbs of the youth." (Vergil, Aeneid 4.558-9)
31. An emotional statement, often indicated with an exclamation mark.
32. "Slavery is morally wrong." To which literary selection does this theme best apply?
33. Rhetoric is diagrammed as a
34. Which rhetorical device is being used in the following lines from the "Pearl Harbor" speech? "Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Phillippine Islands. Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island."
35. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words is called .....
36. "We make it easy for you to discover and create your own videos by providing easy-to-use tools to view and capture your daily moments. Take your videos to the next level with special effects, filters, music, and more."
37. An ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (you won't be sorry)
38. What is a fallacy?
39. Example:sanitation engineer instead of garbage man
40. The words of the story jumped off the page.
41. "After years of this type of disrespect from your boss, countless hours wasted, birthdays missed ..... it's time that you took a stand."
42. The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device? I was so embarrassed, I almost died right there in front of everyone!
43. The author's use of the phrase in lines 35-37 ("how my ..... freedom") is primarily meant to convey
44. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
45. Speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people.
46. I must apologize for my staff ..... their actions were precipitate.Given this sentence, what part of speech is precipitate?
47. What is the EXIGENCE for the 2018 Question 2 text?
48. If the speaker/writer tries to persuade by using facts, data, definitions, statistics, reasoning, etc. they are appealing to .....
49. Which of the following logical fallacies is shown in the following sentence: "If we ban Hummers because they are bad for the environment eventually the government will ban all cars, so we should not ban Hummers."
50. Repetition of the same group of words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or paragraphs [example: "We are a people in quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."
51. Rhetorical appeal to the emotions of the audience.
52. A talking cucumber would be an example of which rhetorical device?
53. Which strategy should be used to evaluate the evidence in an argument?
54. What rhetorical strategy is being used in the following: "My three decades of experience in public service, my tireless commitment to the people of this community, and my willingness to reach across the aisle and cooperate with the opposition, make me the ideal candidate for your mayor."
55. Logical Fallacy:When your mom gets your phone bill and you have gone over the limit, you begin talking to her about how hard your math class is and how well you did on a test today.
56. The immediate revelation to the audience of the setting and other background information necessary for understanding the plot; also, explanation; one of the four modes of discourse
57. "I don't blame our president at all. I really don't. The reason I don't blame our president is because America has gone to sleep." -Shirley Chisholm, 'A Coalition of Conscience, ' Greenfield High School, Greenfield, Massachusetts, Oct. 3, 1983. This quote contains an example of ..... :
58. A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently throughout a work
59. Rhetoric is the art of persuasive writing and/or speaking.
60. Logos is an appeal to
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