Rhetoric Quiz 305 (20 MCQs)

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1. At the end of Toy Story 3 we see an adorable snippet of the infamous "balcony scene" with a hedgehog as Romeo and a Little Green Man as Juliet. He quotes, "But soft what light through yonder window breaks, " and the LGM quotes, "Romeo, oh Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo." This snippet is an example of an .....
2. What is authority?
3. When the author picks the perfect moment to introduce a message or product:
4. Narrator that is able to tell what all the characters are thinking. "God-like" . A "reporter" that can be everywhere.
5. Expressing the same ideas using different words
6. A short, catchy phrase that conveys an important idea
7. What means to appeal to the emotions of an audience?
8. An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices.
9. Choose the correct answer:an appeal that presents ideas that elicit strong feelings is called .....
10. A logical appeal used to persuade an audience by use of facts and reason.
11. Breaking off in the middle of a sentence
12. In this fallacy, the speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices.
13. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things.
14. The construction of sentences; the arrangement of words in a sentence
15. A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.
16. Your dentist recommends a specific toothpaste. You trust their recommendation because they are using
17. What appeal is related directly to the audience's feelings?
18. Using facts, evidence, and statistics to persuade is which rhetorical appeal?
19. Use of three phrases in succession, with all three constructed in the same pattern.
20. Appeals to the appropriate time and place .....