Rhetoric Quiz 103 (20 MCQs)

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1. "Who's ready to party?" is an example of
2. Studying a memoir's setting leads to a more ..... analysis of it's events and message
3. "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war."
4. "Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him, Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day, count no many happy till he dies, free of pain at last." How would you describe the diction in the final lines of the play (see above)?
5. Inversion in the arrangement of common words
6. What are the three words we talked about yesterday?
7. Chocolate was her Achilles' heel. Which rhetorical device is used to get the point across here?
8. A statement that is self contradictory
9. -I am so hungry!-Let's Taco about it.
10. When a speaker uses words or phrases intended to inspire emotion in the reader, it is known as
11. Which of the following quotes from Heller's Catch-22 contains an example of antithesis?
12. "They have worked against everything we have worked so hard to build, and they don't care who gets hurt in the process. Make no mistake, they are the enemy and they will not stop until we are all destroyed."
13. A hospital, after all, is not the best place for a baby to be born.
14. In Obama's Rosa Parks speech, the President made many allusions to what?
15. Choose the word that best completes the sentence.Hint:Determine the connotation (positive or negative) through context clues. Although the problem was difficult to resolve, Sandra and John were ..... in searching for an answer. Their teacher was quite proud.
16. The "American Dream" is .....
17. A position or understanding based on a particular person's opinion, biases, or life experiences.
18. The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant.
19. Gaps in logic
20. The four possible purposes of an author are to