Rhetoric Quiz 294 (20 MCQs)

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1. Trump is good at creating new, memorable terms and phrases.
2. This is a structured essay using clear CLAIM, EVIDENCE, and REASONING for the purpose of persuading others.
3. What is the figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is?
4. Let us go then, you and I, While the evening is spread out against the sky, Like a patient etherized upon a table-T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
5. What rhetorical appeal is being used when a writer uses facts, logic, or reason to get their audience to act or think a certain way?
6. When you use the whole idea of somebody else as your own is this type of plagiarism.
7. A climate scientist gives a speech to Congress about his studies on climate change to urge them to take action before it's too late.Which rhetorical device is used?
8. The measured rhythm of a piece of poetry
9. Edgar Allan Poe is famous for ..... which poem?
10. The word:bias, has a noun and a verb definition
11. The HOW of an argument; the strategies we use to make an argument persuasive
12. Much more important in argumentative writing than it is in persuasive writing.
13. Rhetorical reading focuses on these two things.
14. "If my years as a Marine taught me anything, it's that caution is the best policy in this sort of situation."
15. A temporary departure from the main subject in speaking or writing
16. An informal way of reasoning. Includes data, a claim, and the warrant of an argument.
17. Which literary device is used when a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable?
18. What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below? "Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells." - "The Bells, " Edgar Allan Poe
19. Repeating the same pattern in several sentences or throughout a paragraph.
20. You should not play football because it is statistically the most dangerous sport in terms of injuries. Also, 75% of football players have received serious head injuries, which impacts their health later in life.