Rhetoric Quiz 218 (20 MCQs)

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1. Using pronouns can create what feeling in the audience?

Correct Answer: D) Unity.

2. Douglass claimed that the rise in mixed-race slaves was a rebuttal (counter-argument) to what claim commonly made by pro-slavery white people?

Correct Answer: A) Black people were a curse on Noah's son from God; therefore, American slavery is right.

3. In an appeal to logic, this argument is a way of persuading an audience with reason, using facts and figures

Correct Answer: A) Logos.

4. Percents

Correct Answer: C) Logos.

5. Persuasive Techniques Comparison/Contrast:

Correct Answer: A) Find similarities and differences, and decide a focus or subject.

6. Writers can also try to appeal to readers' emotions (pathos) through their tone, which refers to

Correct Answer: B) The overall attitude in someone's writing.

7. Taking a specific case and then drawing generalizations or conclusions

Correct Answer: D) Induction.

8. Why is the outlining of benefits effective in rhetoric?

Correct Answer: B) It appeals to people's desire to see how something will be good for them.

9. Language particular to a certain group which practices a similar profession or activity

Correct Answer: A) Jargon.

10. A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part.

Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche.

11. A hasty generalization is a faulty conclusion reached because of inadequate evidence.

Correct Answer: B) True.

12. An exaggeration used to emphasize a particular point or argument.

Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole.

13. A claim is when an author tells you what they are arguing for .....

Correct Answer: A) True.

14. Rhetoric that misleads the audience by preying upon their emotions/feelings are

Correct Answer: B) Manipulative.

15. A repeated word or phrase, used for emphasis.

Correct Answer: B) Repetition.

16. Common poetic devices include:

Correct Answer: C) Alliteration, consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia.

17. Melissa, knowing the White House was after her, shook her curls.

Correct Answer: D) Metonymy.

18. What is the following an example of:Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

Correct Answer: C) Patriotism.

19. This is an emotional appeal that speaks the concept that many people agree or disagree, so you should, too

Correct Answer: B) To the people.

20. Refers to the content of a speech and how it is organized (its structure); commonly translated as the logic or reasoning of an argument

Correct Answer: C) Logos.