Rhetoric Quiz 158 (20 MCQs)

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1. Using conjunctions to emphasize rhythm, and therefore emphasize a certain point is called .....
2. A secondary meaning of a word in addition to the dictionary definition.
3. "Imperative" is another word for .....
4. The main purpose of emotional reasoning is to make people think.
5. Philosophical discipline about the laws of thought-it is an auxiliary science
6. Being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation
7. The tortoise and the hare keep moving-hidden meaning
8. One way to incorporate pathos into your own speech is to .....
9. Using direct opposites or two contrasting ideas to communicate an idea, usually in parallel structure
10. In one of Aesop's fables, four animals go hunting thinking that they will split their prize equally, but the lion, the most powerful animal, takes more than the other members of the group. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? My older brother takes the lion's share of the space in our bedroom.
11. Techniques writers and speakers use to make their argument more persuasive.
12. What is the role of ethos in persuasion?
13. Which is NOT one of the classical rhetorical appeals?
14. Ethos definition
15. YOUR ANSWER TO #4
16. An ethical appeal to establish credibility, trust, and morals.Choose the rhetorical appeal that best fits the definition above.
17. The scenes in which Frederick Douglass describes being separated from his mother, his aunt getting whipped, and Mr. Covey beating him most heavily rely on which rhetorical appeal for Douglass' argument against slavery?
18. What is the following an example of:Hundreds of thousands of animals are being tortured and killed every year, and for what? So that we can modernize our beauty products and overstock our grocery stores?
19. Used to indicate a sudden break in thought, to set off parenthetical material
20. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative.