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Rhetoric Quiz 110 (20 MCQs)

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1. Playing on the readers' emotions is called .....
2. Which of these is not a rhetorical choice?
3. Melissa, her curls not entirely shaken, turned away.
4. Which of the following is the definition of an anecdote
5. The act of position close together or side by side different items or ideas that seem out of place to one another. Example "Feather or lead, fiend angelical."
6. A question asked to make a point rather than get an answer
7. What is the Latin name for introduction in the six parts of classical rhetoric?
8. When you compare a characteristic of two things us 'like' or 'as'
9. Dialect of a particular region
10. Appeal to credibility
11. Which is NOT a purpose for writing:
12. A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses
13. The M&M store is similar to the Garden of Eden.
14. Jeff is preparing to create a commercial for a new energy drink. He visits a local high school and surveys students in an English class about their beverage preferences. The majority of the class says they prefer grape flavored drinks, so Jeff tells his superiors that grape is the flavor favored most by high school students. What error in reasoning has Jeff made?
15. The use of words to highlight a double meaning, usually a humorous one
16. Henry:Pierce, are you scared? / Hawkeye:Don't be silly. I'm too frightened to be scared.
17. An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up "Shoot yourself in the foot" is an example that means to do something that hurts yourself.
18. "But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change." What type of persuasive rhetoric is being used?
19. Writing code for applications and websites requires a lot of complexity to be stored in the programmers mind at any one time.
20. The speaker, subject, and audience are components of the .....
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