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Rhetoric Quiz 351 (20 MCQs)

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1. Pick the term that matches the definition:the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea
2. Phantom; ghost
3. "Ethics" and refers to the trustworthiness of the speaker/writer
4. Which logical fallacy occurs when a person rebuts an argument by misconstruing or oversimplifying it.
5. Art lies in concealing arts
6. When you are on your deathbed, you will regret not making more meaningful connections to people more than you will regret not making enough money.
7. ..... refers to a person's REASON for writing, such as to inform, entertain, explain, or persuade. Also known as the aim.
8. ..... is the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. This technique can strengthen a speaker's argument by providing "proof" to support a claim.
9. "Liberals are snowflakes" is an example of
10. Choose the correct term for the following definition:To cause (something, typically an undesirable situation or an unfounded belief) to continue indefinitely.
11. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a [free] people who mean to be free. Future ages will scarcely believe that the hardiness of one man adventured, within the short compass of twelve years only, to lay a foundation so broad and so undisguised for tyranny over a people fostered and fixed in principles of freedom. Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend a [an unwarrantable] jurisdiction over these our states [us]. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension:that these were effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain:that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them:but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited:and, we [have] appealed to their native justice and magnanimity as well as to [and we have conjured17 them by] the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations which were likely to [would inevitably] interrupt our connection and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity ..... Why do you think this mostly struck from the final draft of The Declaration of Independence?
12. Which of the following is the definition of stereotyping?
13. There foot were like the scales of an alligator, with cracks and breaks the size of the grand canyon
14. What does every text have, whether poem, painting, or short story?
15. "and if I were young, and beautiful, and clever, and brilliant, and of a noble position."
16. In addition to spoken expressions, other aids are also used (costume, scenography, mask, script).
17. The Rhetorical Appeal which speaks to one's emotions is called:
18. Match the technique to the appropriate appeal:statistics/facts
19. The art of speaking or writing persuasively is
20. Purification or cleansing of the spirit through the emotions of pity and terror as a witness to a tragedy
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