Rhetoric Quiz 180 (20 MCQs)

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1. A comparison of two unlike things using a form of the verb to be.
2. Immediately, especially in a brusquely imperious way
3. A trope in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
4. Which rhetorical appeal is based on logic and reasoning?
5. The following is the use of what rhetorical device?"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
6. The time and place an argument occurs:
7. "everything like Mercury, the voice and the color and the yellow hair and the beautiful limbs of the youth." (Vergil, Aeneid 4.558-9)
8. An emotional statement, often indicated with an exclamation mark.
9. "Slavery is morally wrong." To which literary selection does this theme best apply?
10. Rhetoric is diagrammed as a
11. Which rhetorical device is being used in the following lines from the "Pearl Harbor" speech? "Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Phillippine Islands. Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island."
12. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words is called .....
13. "We make it easy for you to discover and create your own videos by providing easy-to-use tools to view and capture your daily moments. Take your videos to the next level with special effects, filters, music, and more."
14. An ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (you won't be sorry)
15. What is a fallacy?
16. Example:sanitation engineer instead of garbage man
17. The words of the story jumped off the page.
18. "After years of this type of disrespect from your boss, countless hours wasted, birthdays missed ..... it's time that you took a stand."
19. The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device? I was so embarrassed, I almost died right there in front of everyone!
20. The author's use of the phrase in lines 35-37 ("how my ..... freedom") is primarily meant to convey