Rhetoric Quiz 247 (20 MCQs)

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1. Let Melissa shake her curls, but let her curls not shake Melissa.
2. Ethos is the appeal of
3. Trump is known for using metaphors related to various things, like sports and illnesses.
4. Refers to an attempt to disapprove, contradict, or argue to overcome an opposing reasoning or evidence by introducing another reasoning and evidence to destroy the effect of the previous one.
5. What type of rhetorical appeal is this?"I'm not just invested in this community-I love every building, every business, every hard-working member of this town."
6. What did Nelson Mandela emphasize in his inaugural speech?
7. Everything is fair in love and war The above is an example of a(n) .....
8. What did the fish say, when it hit the wall? DamA play on words
9. 19 Her efforts to deter crime.....
10. When an author repeats a word, phrase, or idea more than once in order to emphasize its importance.
11. Which is NOT a branch of Philosophy?
12. Poetry with rhyme, structure, and literary devices
13. The author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox
14. Figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory; a TWO WORD paradox; two words with contrary or apparently contradictory meanings occurring next to each other, and, which, nonetheless, evoke some measure of truth.
15. What techniques do propagandists use
16. The art of effective communication
17. A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things
18. Giving inanimate objects human characteristics.
19. Which rhetorical appeal is being used in the sentence below? A child is shown covered in bug bites after using an inferior bug spray.
20. In a piece of writing, who controls the TONE?