Rhetoric Quiz 263 (20 MCQs)

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1. A question that is not meant to be answered but rather is asked to emphasize a point
2. When an opinion is stated as if it were a fact, which it is not, and uses biased language
3. A prepared counter claim that keeps the argument moving is
4. Julia squandered her money on designer clothes and expensive trips.
5. Using ideas or words of 2 or more sources as your own idea.
6. A student is writing to propose that her college allow eligible students to use their food stamps in the cafeteria. Which of the following best describes her primary purpose for writing?
7. Please give me the day off. My grandmother died, and I really need to go spend time with my family. They need me to support them during this terrible time.
8. School should start at 10a.m. because students will naturally be more awake and alert later in the morning.
9. When analyzing tone, it can be helpful to anticipate potential .....
10. Repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end. The beginning and the end are the two positions of strongest emphasis in a sentence, so by having the same word in both places, you call special attention to it
11. "You have a heart of gold" is an example of what poetic device?
12. Greek for "timing"
13. We got a new Einstein in school today.
14. The day after Pearl Harbor, my grandfather signed up for duty, joined Patton's army, marched across Europe. This sentence includes the following
15. The art of writing or speaking persuasively to an audience
16. Bringing up a subject by denying that the very subject should be brought up at all.
17. The exact opposite, contrast
18. An ad hominem attack
19. What is the figure of speech in which non-human things are given human attributes?
20. A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. As comedy, it distorts or exaggerates distinctive features of the original. As ridicule, it mimics the work by repeating and borrowing words, phrases, or characteristics in order to illuminate weaknesses in the original.