Rhetoric Quiz 227 (20 MCQs)

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1. The author's point of view can be best described as that of
2. Rhetorical Skills 2
3. Which rhetorical device is being used in the following quote:'We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow, our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.'?
4. What is missing from this argument? Dr. Carnegie believes that all people need to eat an apple a day and that is important because my grandmother died of a heart attack.
5. Who devised the three persuasive techniques:Ethos, Pathos, Logos?
6. Something that can be proven through research
7. Which BEST describes the author's tone in this sentence?No matter how hard I try, I will never be able to get on the basketball team.
8. Facts, anecdotes, analogies, statistics, examples, details, illustrations, expert opinions, personal observations, personal experiences, testimonies, or experiments.
9. The characteristic of selected words, or emphasis to a achieve a preconceived intent. (ie. They snickered at the
10. He's gone to a better place
11. To give credit or recognition to
12. Fill in the blank:Epistrope helps to create .....
13. A reference to something in history or literature.
14. ..... our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.
15. One of Aristotle's three modes of persuasion; it involves establishing credibility and trustworthiness as a speaker or writer.
16. An appeal to credibility andauthority
17. Which logical fallacy is a type of argument in which the conclusion comes back to the premise without providing any outside proof, meaning both sides of the argument are making the same point?
18. Every person who consumes rhetoric (i.e-reads the argument or hears the speech)
19. A piece of writing whose purpose is to criticize through the use of humour and irony
20. Any descriptive language used to evoke a vivid sense or image of something