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Rhetoric Quiz 257 (20 MCQs)

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1. YOUR ANSWER TO #7
2. "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last" is an example of which rhetorical device?
3. ..... in the second and third books he deals with five parts of rhetoric:* finding the building (inventio), * arrangement and division (collocatio, dispositio), * language processing (elocutio), * memory (memoria), * ruling during speech and pronunciation (habitus, pronuntiatio).
4. Objective
5. A two-word paradox that is used to emphasize the complexity or ridiculousness of human nature or reality
6. The repetition of a vowel sounds in a series of words.
7. "The stock market has crashed, but today I will send 2, 500, 000 people back to work." -President Hoover
8. Perhaps because bats are nocturnal in habit, a wealth of thoroughly unreliable legend has grown up about them, and men have made of the harmless, even beneficial little beasts a means of expressing their unreasonable fears. Bats were the standard paraphernalia for witches, the females half of humanity stood in terror that bats would become entangled in their hair. Phrases crept into the language expressing man's revulsion or ignorance- "Bat's in the Belfry, " "Batty, " "Blind as a Bat."
9. An author's word choice is also called .....
10. Charged words are
11. "I have a dream that one day my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
12. Which type of rhetoric deals with FEELINGS?
13. What is a red herring?
14. The ..... between the author/speaker and reader/audience can be good, bad, or neutral.
15. Oprah Winfrey was sued by a food company for saying "That makes me not want to eat a hamburger" when a mother on her show shared how her son died by eating an E.coli contaminated hamburger.
16. The introduction of a story or book, when the characters and setting are first described
17. What is delivery?
18. Logical fallacy in which the arguer sets up the situation so it looks like there are only two choices. The arguer then eliminates one of the choices, so it seems that we are left with only one option:the one the arguer wanted us to pick in the first place.
19. Love is an ideal thing, marriage is the real thing.
20. Any preferences or prejudices that a person has.
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