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Rhetoric Quiz 226 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which is the most powerful aspect of persuasion?
2. The art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse.
3. This appeal usually represents the audience.
4. Which trope or scheme is used in the following sentence: "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
5. Repetition of initial sounds of words like a tongue twister
6. Achieving little or nothing; ineffective
7. A reference to a famous work of literature, person, or event
8. Name the rhetorical device present in the following quote. "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
9. Appeals to the emotions of an audience is known as?
10. Du Bois suggested that ..... was the key towards progress for his community.
11. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of each word. Ex:Critics cry for crumbs of Columbus.
12. What was the most predominant clue that "A Modest Proposal" is satirical in nature?
13. Get them to feel
14. A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction
15. Select the sentence that illustrates the use of proper parallel construction.
16. What is a claim in an argumentative essay?
17. To inform, to entertain, to raise awareness or persuade is which part of the rhetorical situation:
18. "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand ..... "
19. What is judicial?
20. Read this sentence from Patrick Henry's speech:I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. What appeal does he primarily use here?
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