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Rhetoric Quiz 253 (20 MCQs)

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1. "Thank you, Chairman Aarvik. Thank you, members of the Nobel Committee. Thank you, people of Norway, for declaring on this singular occasion that our survival has meaning for mankind."
2. A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. The effect is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back.
3. "I am a student, a leader, an athlete, a friend." This sentence includes a:
4. The period of time where slavery was rife in America is often referred to as 'our peculiar institution.'
5. Nonliteral language, often evoking strong imagery, sometimes referred to as a trope. These often compare one thing to another either explicitly (using simile) or implicitly (using metaphor).
6. Which of these describes logos?
7. What is the controlling idea (main idea) of the below section? Your brain is made up of 86 billion cells called neurons. They're literally wired together by axons in a network that sends electrical and chemical signals. A single neuron in your brain can be connected to 10, 000 other neurons. When you think, feel, move or use your senses, signals travel through this network.Brain researchers have found that, when we learn, new connections form between neurons, old connections grow stronger and unused connections are destroyed. Learning is like exercise for your brain. The more you work it out, the stronger and smarter your network of neurons will become.
8. What is the main idea or main argument?
9. What phrase BEST SUITES Appeal to Fear?
10. What type rhetorical device is this?
11. Whether you believe it or not, exposure to the radio frequency fields released by cell phones is generally more than a thousand times higher than that from home phones. Research has been conducted on the negative health effects of mobile phone exposure. The average cell phone user puts their phone in contact with several places where it can pick up germs. People also put themselves in potentially hazardous situations with their phones in hand. Small text and bright screens can strain cell phone users' eyes. Long hours of cell phone usage can lead to high levels of stress.
12. Backing is a fallacy when the author chooses to oversimplify in order to ridicule an idea.
13. ..... his intense stage fright, Brian's act in the talent show was by far the most popular.
14. That is not my wallet. My wallet has a tear in it. This wallet has no tear in it. Therefore, it cannot be mine.
15. Which sentence contains proper parallelism?
16. Using a brief story to illustrate a point is a technique called .....
17. What technique is used here?"Women are usually the first to be laid off, as more are on zero hours contracts, in part time work, and on the minimum wage."
18. Burlesque
19. The energetic children frolicked all day on the beach.
20. An element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographic locale
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