Rhetoric Quiz 122 (20 MCQs)

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1. A figurative image that implies the similarity between things otherwise dissimilar. (A comparison)
2. Irrevelent
3. Audience appeals are
4. Attributing human qualities to objects, abstractions, or animals.
5. Loaded words is a propaganda device that is used to:
6. A statement that is not good enough to explain how good, bad, or impressive something really is?
7. In formal logic, a structure of deductive logic in which correctly formed major and minor premises lead to a necessary conclusion.
8. Identify the word or phrase that creates epistrophe in the following: "And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth, " Abraham Lincoln
9. If it were me, I would be angry. After years of this type of disrespect from your boss, countless hours wasted, birthdays missed ..... it's time that you took a stand.
10. A reference to a famous or well-known event, idea, or figure.Choose the word that best fits the definition above.
11. ID the ADVERB:The students happily ran out of the doors on the last day of school.
12. What is a common rhetorical device used in speeches?
13. Celebrity endorsements are what type of rhetorical appeal?
14. When a nonhuman or an inanimate object possesses the attribution of human qualities
15. Comparing two things that are not comparable. Ex:apples to dogs
16. WE SHALL NOT FLAG OR FAIL. WE SHALL GO ON TO THE END ..... WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER.
17. Ethos, logos, and pathos are called:
18. What type of reasoning uses a given fact or set of facts to deduce other facts to reach a conclusion? (a+b=c)
19. Dishonest practices and claims to have special knowledge and skill
20. An obvious, intended exaggeration