Rhetoric Quiz 149 (20 MCQs)

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1. The image is an example of what structure?
2. The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, these give a work a conversational, familiar tone. In writing, these expressions include local or regional dialects.
3. The Cast of Characters:Breakfast Sausage, Flour, Milk, Salt, Pepper, and Biscuits.
4. Evaluation of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices; classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors
5. A deductive system of formal logic that presents a "major" and "minor" premise that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. EXAMPLE:Major premise:All men are mortal Minor premise:Socrates is a man. Conclusion:Therefore, Socrates is mortal. The conclusion is valid only if each of the two premises is valid.
6. Greek word meaning "suffering" or "experience" .
7. This appeal includes using a counterargument then discrediting it.
8. ..... refers to the mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel.
9. A long narrative poem with a hero (Beowulf)
10. "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." -Martin Luther King, Jr.This is an example of .....
11. What was King's rebuttal.
12. Compliance with rules or standards
13. Taps into people's desire to belong.
14. In the sentence "The deafening silence filled the room, " what figure of speech is being used?
15. The attitude of the author toward a subject
16. Citation of information from people recognized for their special knowledge of a subject for the purpose of strengthening a speaker's or writer's argument
17. The writer's attempt to convince his reader to agree with him or her.
18. Which of the following is an example of an oxymoron?
19. "They might dismiss us and say that we are too young to understand. But I understand pain. I get grief. I see it in the eyes of the families mourning for those they lost. I hear it in the wails of the loved ones who had to bury one of their own because grown men and women won't listen to common sense and do the bare minimum." Which of the following best answers the P in SOAPSTone?
20. Refers to the window of opportunity during which something could happen; commonly translated as the right or opportune moment of a speech or 'the supreme moment'