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Rhetoric Quiz 91 (60 MCQs)

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1. Figure of speech that involves the repetition of words derived from the same root
2. Examples from scientific studies
3. A kind of irony that deliberately represents something as a being less than it really is
4. The main idea of a passage can be found in .....
5. Unfair oversimplification of an issue by providing only two options as a possible solution is called .....
6. Which best describes the MODE or PATTERN OF ORGANIZATION in lines 49-63 ("In recent years ..... in her country")?
7. Choose the correct words to make the sentence parallel. Ron was an expert tennis player and .....
8. A mild word used to substitute an unpleasant or offensive word.
9. The appeal to logos relies mostly on .....
10. By closing schools on election day, the parish is encouraging their employees to use their right of .....
11. A question is posed to an audience in order to get them to think about a subject.
12. Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions
13. What is symploce?
14. The speed a text moves along.
15. "Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum"
16. "The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you." Which rhetorical strategy is used?
17. When analyzing a memoir's impact, it is important to study .....
18. What does the tone mean in SOAPSTone?
19. Writing whose chief aim is to explain
20. Visual literacy is .....
21. The position taken by the person making the argument; what a person is trying to prove
22. A celebrity goes on Instagram with a story about a young girl who needs money for surgery. She tells the story of how the girl was in a car accident and her parents are too poor to pay for her care. The S in SPACECAT is:
23. Read this passage:Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man when I could get it and bear the lash as well! Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I A Woman?" What strategy is Sojourner Truth using in this passage?
24. What genre deals with blaming someone?
25. At the end of a race, we were deceved by an (allusion or illusion) that there was a cooler of water by the comfortable looking chairs
26. "This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable Rights' of 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." ' What rhetoric tool is this an example of?
27. The context in which an argument exists that directly influences not only what is presented by also how it is presented
28. "If you are in high school and own a pet, then you need to read this" Based on the title, what is the audience?
29. Define:Parataxis
30. Which of the following rhetorical elements is demonstrated in the following sentence from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention? "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!"
31. What is Analogy?
32. What are three factors that contribute a source's credibility?
33. In the Special K add, they say "we know only real ingredients make really delicious bowlfuls." What kind of logical fallacy is this?
34. Squealer uses many propaganda techniques, but ..... is the one that finally gets the animals to be quiet.
35. Repetition of a word or words in successive clauses; the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause
36. Fill in the blank:When we consider ....., we want to notice interesting constructions such as parallelism, juxtaposition, and antithesis, along with sentence types such as compound, complex, periodic, cumulative, and imperative, among others; we might also look at at the pacing of a piece of work.
37. Who delivered the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech?
38. Speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience
39. Pathos is most closely related to .....
40. ..... is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.
41. "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." is
42. Rhetorical Devicea statement that expresses the opposite of the literal meaning of the words ..... often used for humorous or sarcastic effect.
43. Which element is the most important to an argument
44. These areunrealistic characters that are builtaround one trait.
45. "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master." ~Christian Lous Lange~ The main PURPOSE in this quote is to get the audience to .....
46. After realizing that Emancipation alone would not resolve racial issues in the U.S., the African American community hoped that what would resolve problems?
47. Stopping abruptly and leaving a sentence unfinished
48. The picturing in words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound, taste, smell, and touch; one of the four modes of discourse
49. An argument that assumes the truth of what it is trying to prove.
50. When the writer/speaker repeats the claim as evidence
51. Replacing one word or phrase that sounds harsh with something that sounds nicer
52. The target of the rhetoric
53. Although I am apprehensive about the test. I am going for it.
54. The use of language that stirs up particular emotions in the reader.
55. What was the main message of the 'I Have a Dream' speech?
56. Now it's time to get serious. See all this grease? Depending on how many gravy eaters you're cooking for, you may not want to use all of this. On this particular morning last weekend, all four of our punks were at my dad's and I was watching my waistline. So I really was only making gravy for Marlboro Man. But then I realized I wasn't kidding anyone and that I'd wind up scarfing down at least some of the stuff. So I planned on gravy for two.
57. Can anyone look at our reduced standing in the world today and say, "Let's have four more years of this?"
58. The repetition of words at the end of a line
59. A question that does not require an answer because the answer is obvious
60. An opposing viewpoint
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