Rhetoric Quiz 276 (20 MCQs)

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1. The inference that a claim is true for most people or a majority, used to speak to prevailing beliefs or prejudices of an audience.
2. A political system in which a single ruler or group has absolute power and authority
3. Constructing reality is another communicative function that rhetoric performs
4. Which of the following means that the audience trusts the speaker?
5. "A teenager tries to convince his parents to buy him a new car, as the old one continually breaks down, by saying if they cared about their child's safety they'd upgrade him."
6. E. coli mutation is caused by feeding cows corn. Statistics showing how E. coli cases are found within the same companies repeatedly.
7. Define trope.
8. 72% of Americans prefer body wash to bar soap.Which appeal is used in this statement?
9. What document does Antony share with the Roman mob?
10. What dos the "s" represent in SOAPSTone?
11. What is the main idea of the following text? The paths you choose today can shape you forever. It's both frightening and exciting that we have to make so many vital decisions when we're so young and full of hormones, but such is life. Imagine an eighty-foot rope stretched out before you. Each foot represents one year of your life. Teenagehood is only seven years, such a short span of rope, but those seven affect the remaining sixty-one, for good or bad, in such a powerful way.
12. What is the following an example of:What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called.
13. What does the "t" represent in SOAPStone?
14. If Melissa were here, she'd shake her curls and say, "How fitting."
15. He delivered a ..... speech that did not even address our problems.
16. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
17. Wording that has a strong connotation or mental image
18. Honest and ordinary people, like you and I, choose this product.
19. Uses pronouns I/me
20. Rhetorical appeal:provides a sense of emotion