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Rhetoric Quiz 131 (20 MCQs)

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1. Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence, lines, or clauses (example:Silence, she said. Silence, she repeated. Silence! Finally yelled.)
2. Think about "Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage" by Carrie Chapman Catt to answer the question.Read the excerpt, then answer the question.Gentlemen, we hereby petition you, our only designated representatives, to redress our grievances by the immediate passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment and to use your influence to secure its ratification in our own state, in order that women of our nation may be endowed with political freedom before the next presidential election. "Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage" by Carrie Chapman CattUsing context clues, match each vocabulary word in the excerpt to its definition.endowed
3. Question not answered by writer b/c the answer is obvious or obviously desired.
4. Which fallacy is this? If they can't buy it, they won't survive.
5. Ethos usually uses a(n) ..... to persuade the audience.
6. Rely on reason and facts to support a claim.
7. Rhetorical devices are used to appeal to ethos, logos, or pathos.
8. Which word correctly completes the sentence?The dishwasher was an ..... invention because I no longer have to manually wash dishes!
9. Choose the best sentence (parallel structure)
10. An extended metaphor that compares to very dissimilar things in unexpected ways.
11. What is the Rhetorical term for speaker?
12. Fill in the Blank:Epistrophe is the ..... of one or more words at the ..... of consecutive lines or sentences.
13. The target audience, the person or group that the speaker is trying to persuade.
14. A dentist selling toothpaste is a good use of this appeal
15. The impression of the atmosphere of the text.
16. Explaining something complex by comparing it to something more simple; similes and metaphors can be used to develop them
17. The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and eventssurrounding the text.
18. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury:we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery ..... We also have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut." ..... Which type of appeal is being used here?
19. "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought ..... " is an example of .....
20. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of the same letter at the beginning of adjacent words?
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