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Rhetoric Quiz 272 (20 MCQs)

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1. Making people stop thinking and start feeling orappealing to someone's softer side, is using which rhetorical device:
2. A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers.
3. Flow
4. Convincing us to accept someone or something because of its popularity
5. Language that evokes any of the five senses.
6. An argument based on fact uses a lot of
7. The CRAAP test is used to
8. Thinking rhetorically is not useful in any communication context, whether you're reading, writing, speaking, or listening.Thinking about the rhetorical situation will not hep you to read and write more critically and strategically.
9. They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!What rhetorical device is Patrick Henry employing in this passage?
10. I was dead after work yesterday
11. Which of the following means "free from opinion and bias" ?
12. Which is the best definition of "objective writing" ?
13. Amplification
14. A diagram that illustrates the relationships among speaker, audience and subject.
15. I was struggling to figure out how lightning works, but then it struck me. This is an example of .....
16. "I will have revenges on you both that all the world shall-I will do such things-what they are yet, I know not; but they shall be the terrors of the earth!"
17. "If/then" or "cause/effect" statements could, if they're being used to manipulate an audience, be an example of which rhetorical appeal?
18. A question asked for persuasive effect and not requiring an answer
19. This is a way of persuading an audience with reason, using facts, figures, and statistics.
20. Pure Heroine-Lorde
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