Rhetoric Quiz 323 (20 MCQs)

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1. Short, simple story that teaches a religious or moral lesson
2. What do you call a persuasive appeal using logic?
3. Most toddlers are messy eaters. This statement is a
4. "But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
5. A loose sentence
6. First, find the 'App Store' icon and tap it to access the store. You can either browser the 'New' and 'What's hot' categories to find an app you like the look of. Alternatively, use the Search button at the bottom left of the screen to look for specific apps. Next, the App Store will display a list of matching apps. Simply tap an app to see a further description of it. You can then tap the 'buy' or 'free button' which is displayed on the right-hand side of the app description screen to download it. Finally you'll be prompted to enter your iTunes password Click OK and you'll automatically leave the app store.
7. Identify the rhetorical device:If you have nothing nice to say then don't say anything at all.
8. To identify this rhetorical device, look for the speaker/writer to use meaningful language that has emotional tones and shares emotion-evoking examples and stories of emotional events.
9. Define Cliche
10. Who founded rhetoric?
11. Figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or causes.
12. Arguments in which the speaker attempts to persuade the listener through the use of deductive reasoning and logic ..... Example:Providing statistics and examples
13. Which type of rhetoric is primarily being used in the advertisement?
14. A self-contradictory statement that can actually be true
15. The book was written entirely in diary format. What rhetorical term best describes this choice.
16. What month will infant flesh be so plentiful?
17. A technique by which the writer or speaker anticipates objections his audience may have to his argument and points out the error in their objections (see correction of erroneous views)
18. "Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel" is an example of
19. What is the purpose of transition words such as "first, " "second, " and "third" in a piece of persuasive writing?
20. Which of the following is a synonym for chronicle?