Rhetoric Quiz 318 (20 MCQs)

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1. Writing an Argumentative Essay:What should you do after presenting text evidence?

Correct Answer: D) Explain how that evidence proves your point.

2. Which rhetorical appeal appeals to logic and reason?

Correct Answer: C) Logos.

3. If an advertisement uses a celebrity endorsement or focuses on a company's credibility, what form of rhetoric is being used?

Correct Answer: A) Ethos.

4. What does the term 'pathos' refer to in rhetoric?

Correct Answer: A) An appeal to emotions.

5. Your argument is a red herring, and I'm not falling for it.

Correct Answer: A) Metaphor.

6. Yoda speech-when the normal order of words is mixed upPatience I lack!

Correct Answer: C) Anastrophe.

7. Omission of the conjunctions ("ands"/"or") that ordinarily joins a list (as in "I came, I saw, I conquered" ).

Correct Answer: B) Unconnected.

8. The way of convincing an audience in a persuasive speech.

Correct Answer: D) Audience appeal.

9. A homily is a word whose main purpose is interpretation.....

Correct Answer: B) Bibles.

10. This part of an editorial discusses the points of the other side

Correct Answer: B) Opponent's side.

11. Support should be all of the following EXCEPT .....

Correct Answer: D) Personal.

12. Don't talk such drivel!Given the sentence, what part of speech is drivel?

Correct Answer: A) Noun.

13. A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or a whole paragraph

Correct Answer: B) Extended Metaphor.

14. Which of the following would you not use to describe an approach or setting in which rules are not strictly enforced?

Correct Answer: D) Stringent.

15. Persuading by appealing to the audience's emotions-Ex. "Choose our security system because no price is too much to pay for peace of mind."

Correct Answer: C) Pathos.

16. Non fiction

Correct Answer: C) Writing that is true.

17. Principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively

Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Modes.

18. Rhetorical devices are split into three categories?

Correct Answer: D) Ethos, passion, reason.

19. What is the main argument of the prosecution's (Gilmer) case?

Correct Answer: D) Tom Robinson is guilty.

20. A contradiction in terms

Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron.