Rhetoric Quiz 137 (20 MCQs)

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1. If you never wear shoes, it is ..... that you will injure your foot.
2. A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox
3. The first shock came in the shape of the Rowlatt Act, 8 a law designed to rob the people of all real freedom. I felt called upon to lead an intensive agitation against it.
4. Which color is associated with royalty because it is so rare/expensive?
5. What is the purpose of rhetoric?
6. Rhetorical devices weaken an argument and make them invalid.
7. Who is the father of rhetoric?
8. Which kind of figurative language is used in the sentence below? Olivia, your room is a pig sty.
9. What is "Closing by Return?"
10. The Oval Office issued a statement condemning the terrorist attack.
11. Here is an excerpt from Audre Lorde's essay "The Master's Tool's Will Never Dismantle the Master's House"Those of us who stand outside the circle of [society's] definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference ..... those of us who are poor, ..... who are Black, who are older ..... know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.Which rhetorical choice is evident in this excerpt?
12. "to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood." (MLK, Jr.)
13. When Martin Luther King Junior says, "So let freedom ring from the hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the ..... " he is using .....
14. "I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle." What is the purpose of the characterization?
15. "Bear with me;My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me." is an example of Antony's use of:
16. The following is an example of what term ..... The tree danced in the wind.
17. Pick the sentence with the correct commas.
18. The fat comedian is as plump as a pillow.
19. Which of the following would be a technique that implements logos?
20. Appealing to one's emotions