Rhetoric Quiz 193 (20 MCQs)

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1. How can you establish pathos?
2. The following statement is an example of what literary term?Sheldon Cooper is a perfect example of this.
3. State a position, recommend a solution, present an interpretation. (a)
4. "One of my very good school friends, the same age as me, had always been a bold and confident girl and dreamed of becoming a doctor. But her dream remained a dream. At age of 12, she was forced to get married and then soon had a son at an age when she herself was a child-only 14. I know that my friend would have been a very good doctor.But she couldn't ..... because she was a girl." Which rhetoric tool is this?
5. This offers credibility in writing, and are used with Logos.
6. Celebrity sponsorships make use of this mode of persuasion.
7. An appeal to someone's logical reasoning
8. Who opened the first McDonald's restaurant?
9. [1] What was less well-known, until recently at least, was how this relationship among sea otters, sea urchins, and kelp forests might help fight global warming. [2] The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased 40 percent. [3] A recent study by two professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Chris Wilmers and James Estes, suggests, that kelp forests protected by sea otters can absorb as much as twelve times the amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as those where sea urchins are allowed to devour the kelp. [4] Like their terrestrial plant cousins, kelp removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, turning it into sugar fuel through photosynthesis, and releases oxygen back into the air.[5] Scientists knew this but did not recognize how large a role they played in helping kelp forests to significantly decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Where is the most logical place in this paragraph to add the following sentence?What Wilmers and Estes discovered in their study, therefore, surprised them.
10. This means to appeal to one's sense of reason or logic. This may include providing facts, statistics, examples (hypothetical or real).
11. "The world is a stage, and we are all actors playing our parts."
12. An ad using a funny talking dog to sell a product is focused on:
13. Which is not a key category of rhetoric?
14. Find the rhetorical device in this sentence: "With great power comes great responsibility."
15. A contrast of ideas and words written in a balanced or parallel construction.
16. Which is an example of Ethos from Steve Jobs's speech?
17. A sentence fragment used deliberately for persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect.
18. A fallacy in which an idea is just repeated in different terms rather than proved
19. What is the Latin name for a statement of facts in the six parts of classical rhetoric?
20. Trump criticizes an opponent by basically saying that he would be "electrocuted" if he acted like that.