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Rhetoric Quiz 81 (60 MCQs)

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1. Why is this a logical fallacy? "Sure, we haven't given raises in over five years to our employees. You know, we work really hard to make a good product. We try to ensure the best customer service, too."
2. Which term means a repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of each (or most) words in a phrase or sentence?
3. Repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or paragraphs.
4. Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses.
5. Arguing on the basis of a comparison of unrelated things. It is setting up a false comparison in an attempt to prove a point.
6. Which of the below is the definition for hypophora?
7. According to the textbook, rhetoric achieves all of the following EXCEPT
8. Alone in the dark with nothing but your thoughts, time can draw out like a blade.
9. "Better men than us have fought and died to preserve this great nation. Now it's our turn to return the favor. For God and for the homeland, gentlemen!"
10. What is the definition of Transition Words?
11. Which rhetorical device is used? I came, I saw, I conquered.
12. Short and interesting stories or accounts that support a point.
13. What is an appeal to emotion, a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response?
14. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check ..... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check that has come back marked "insufficient funds."
15. Statements:Some fruits are mangos. All mangos are guavas. No guava is a banana. Conclusions:I. All fruits are bananas. II. No mango is a banana
16. When the reader understands closely what the character is feeling.
17. What is an appeal to ignorance?
18. What can allusions provide insight into?
19. Gandhi use a ..... tone to show his willingness to negotiate and cooperate with the British.
20. Kind of the opposite of jargon-it's when you use informal (or even slang) words. For example, in Of Mice and Men, George says, "I ain't sure it's good water ..... looks kinda scummy." Both "ain't" and "kinda" are examples of this.
21. What is a restatement?
22. Identifying the features of a text AND explaining how the author uses these to develop the meaning or to achieve a particular effect.
23. What distinction does President Lincoln make in paragraph 3 about both sides of the war?
24. Independent or Dependent? Unless my dad comes home.
25. "Can anyone deny the beauty of a starlit night?"What rhetorical devise is used?
26. Higher education is strongly correlated to higher earnings late in life. If you are interested in maintaining a middle-class life, the most likely way to do it is to go to college. This is an example of .....
27. My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him.
28. Satire that criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humor.
29. Which trope or scheme is used in the following sentence: "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts."
30. If I were trying to sell a car to a family of 4, what type of appeal would be MOST beneficial to get them to buy the car?
31. Propaganda technique using short phrases or words to promote positive feelings or emotions
32. 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.
33. Observation:The bakery across the street always has a line out the door. Conclusion:The bakery sells delicious treats
34. What animal is compared to the machine that sucks out the poison from Mildred's stomach?
35. "Thank you, Chairman Aarvik. Thank you, members of the Nobel Committee. Thank you, people of Norway, for declaring on this singular occasion that our survival has meaning for mankind."
36. A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. The effect is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back.
37. "I am a student, a leader, an athlete, a friend." This sentence includes a:
38. The period of time where slavery was rife in America is often referred to as 'our peculiar institution.'
39. Nonliteral language, often evoking strong imagery, sometimes referred to as a trope. These often compare one thing to another either explicitly (using simile) or implicitly (using metaphor).
40. Which of these describes logos?
41. What is the controlling idea (main idea) of the below section? Your brain is made up of 86 billion cells called neurons. They're literally wired together by axons in a network that sends electrical and chemical signals. A single neuron in your brain can be connected to 10, 000 other neurons. When you think, feel, move or use your senses, signals travel through this network.Brain researchers have found that, when we learn, new connections form between neurons, old connections grow stronger and unused connections are destroyed. Learning is like exercise for your brain. The more you work it out, the stronger and smarter your network of neurons will become.
42. What is the main idea or main argument?
43. What phrase BEST SUITES Appeal to Fear?
44. Whether you believe it or not, exposure to the radio frequency fields released by cell phones is generally more than a thousand times higher than that from home phones. Research has been conducted on the negative health effects of mobile phone exposure. The average cell phone user puts their phone in contact with several places where it can pick up germs. People also put themselves in potentially hazardous situations with their phones in hand. Small text and bright screens can strain cell phone users' eyes. Long hours of cell phone usage can lead to high levels of stress.
45. Backing is a fallacy when the author chooses to oversimplify in order to ridicule an idea.
46. ..... his intense stage fright, Brian's act in the talent show was by far the most popular.
47. That is not my wallet. My wallet has a tear in it. This wallet has no tear in it. Therefore, it cannot be mine.
48. Which sentence contains proper parallelism?
49. Using a brief story to illustrate a point is a technique called .....
50. What technique is used here?"Women are usually the first to be laid off, as more are on zero hours contracts, in part time work, and on the minimum wage."
51. The energetic children frolicked all day on the beach.
52. An element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographic locale
53. "Mark but this flea, and mark in this, how little that which thou deniest me is ..... "
54. Who or what is best described as the reason for the speech?
55. You leave me home alone by myself all the time, and I never do anything wrong. I've had an iPad for a year and nothing bad has ever happened to it. That's why I'm responsible enough to get a new cellphone.
56. To swear off; to renounce
57. Which trope or scheme is NOT used in the following sentence: "He's not the sharpest tool in the shed."
58. Type of Appeal:The Center for Disease Control advises everyone to get a flu vaccination.
59. True or false:chronicle can be a verb or a noun.
60. A hyperbole is an exaggeration that is obvious and not supposed to be taken literally.
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