Rhetoric Quiz 245 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the purpose of antithesis?
2. What are rhetorical questions used for?
3. What are techniques used in language in order to convey a point or influence an audience?
4. Statements:Some dogs are bats. Some bats are cats. Conclusions:Some dogs are cats.Some cats are dogs.
5. The art of persuasive use of language.
6. You're being let go. Her father passed away. The toddler told his mom that he needed to go potty. These are examples of which rhetorical device?
7. Words or phrases that appeal to the senses, used to describe persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas.
8. Which of the following describes how Division should begin?
9. Feeling or atmosphere provoked in the reader by the author's use of diction, syntax, and figurative language.
10. Complete the pun:Broken pencils are .....
11. A question that is asked merely for effect with no obvious answer expected.
12. You should learn to play the flute because hundreds of peer-reviewed studies show that learning to play a musical instrument has benefits for memory retention later in live.
13. Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity between two unlike things; this is an appeal to logic
14. Which of the following is NOT an example of antimetabole?
15. The placement of two things side by side to create contrast or comparison
16. The central point a text is making; a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong
17. Invention is .....
18. Appeals to the emotions (empathy) and the sympathetic imagination, as well as to beliefs and values.
19. Substituting an inoffensive word or phrase for an unpleasant or embarrassing expression
20. "I said, 'Who killed him?' and he said 'I don't know who killed him, but he's dead all right, ' and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water."