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Rhetoric Quiz 73 (60 MCQs)

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1. In a manner that shows tenacity and grim persistence
2. Which is the most powerful aspect of persuasion?
3. The art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse.
4. This appeal usually represents the audience.
5. Which trope or scheme is used in the following sentence: "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
6. Repetition of initial sounds of words like a tongue twister
7. Achieving little or nothing; ineffective
8. A reference to a famous work of literature, person, or event
9. Name the rhetorical device present in the following quote. "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
10. Appeals to the emotions of an audience is known as?
11. Du Bois suggested that ..... was the key towards progress for his community.
12. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of each word. Ex:Critics cry for crumbs of Columbus.
13. What was the most predominant clue that "A Modest Proposal" is satirical in nature?
14. Get them to feel
15. A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction
16. Select the sentence that illustrates the use of proper parallel construction.
17. What is a claim in an argumentative essay?
18. To inform, to entertain, to raise awareness or persuade is which part of the rhetorical situation:
19. "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand ..... "
20. What is judicial?
21. Read this sentence from Patrick Henry's speech:I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. What appeal does he primarily use here?
22. The author's point of view can be best described as that of
23. Rhetorical Skills 2
24. Which rhetorical device is being used in the following quote:'We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow, our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.'?
25. What is missing from this argument? Dr. Carnegie believes that all people need to eat an apple a day and that is important because my grandmother died of a heart attack.
26. Who devised the three persuasive techniques:Ethos, Pathos, Logos?
27. Something that can be proven through research
28. Which BEST describes the author's tone in this sentence?No matter how hard I try, I will never be able to get on the basketball team.
29. Facts, anecdotes, analogies, statistics, examples, details, illustrations, expert opinions, personal observations, personal experiences, testimonies, or experiments.
30. The characteristic of selected words, or emphasis to a achieve a preconceived intent. (ie. They snickered at the
31. He's gone to a better place
32. To give credit or recognition to
33. Fill in the blank:Epistrope helps to create .....
34. A reference to something in history or literature.
35. ..... our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.
36. One of Aristotle's three modes of persuasion; it involves establishing credibility and trustworthiness as a speaker or writer.
37. An appeal to credibility andauthority
38. Which logical fallacy is a type of argument in which the conclusion comes back to the premise without providing any outside proof, meaning both sides of the argument are making the same point?
39. Every person who consumes rhetoric (i.e-reads the argument or hears the speech)
40. A piece of writing whose purpose is to criticize through the use of humour and irony
41. Any descriptive language used to evoke a vivid sense or image of something
42. What could make an argument invalid?
43. The substitution of a less offensive word in place of a more harsh or offensive word.
44. "As I said before, I never repeat myself" is an example of
45. Which type of rhetorical appeal is used in the following sentence: "A child who forgot to use bug spray is shown covered in bug bites."
46. Withholding of syntactic closure (completion of grammatical structure) until the end of a sentence (close to the period).
47. Repeating grammatical structures
48. The second half of a phrase reverses the order of the first half.
49. Weakens a claim by using words like:probably, in most cases, usually
50. I told Rachel it was a bad idea to eat that monster burrito before we got on the Texas Giant, but she didn't listen and ended up yacking in the trash can afterwards. Which of the following terms is being presented in the example above?
51. Aristotle is known for developing the art of .....
52. The use of symbols to represent bigger ideas
53. Who are you to say we are not important? Who are you to say our opinions don't matter? Who are you to say that we will not be heard? This sentence is an example of
54. Which appeal uses CREDIBILITY to persuade?
55. Which of the four appeals is someone using if they are trying to sway your opinion by using facts & figures or reasoning?
56. Which one is not disney princess
57. The rhetorical appeal that uses facts, examples, and statistics is called
58. This transition word introduces one or more examples of an idea that was just mentioned.
59. Language that evokes one or all of the five senses; language that "paints a picture"
60. Formal/dignified languageExample:The Fourth of March, one thousand seven and eighty nine Vs March 4, 1789
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