Rhetoric Quiz 360 (20 MCQs)

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1. "If you don't fill out your college applications early, you will be looked at last by the admissions teams." Which appeal would describe this sentence BEST.
2. What two aspects of Swift's writing clearly indicate Swift's purpose?
3. The pencil danced across the page is an example of what figurative language?
4. Imagine you're Michael, a speaker at a school event. What should you, as Michael, consider when thinking about the audience of your message?
5. A narrator referred to as "I, " who is a character in a story and relates the actions through his or her own perspective.
6. Repetition at the beginning of a line
7. Pathos tries to appeal to someone's .....
8. "The welfare of the wage worker, the welfare of the tiller of the soil-upon these depend the welfare of the entire country. Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made." -Theodore Roosevelt, 'The Man with the Muck-Rake, ' a speech that was part of a campaign against corruption, April 14, 1906. This quote contains an example of ..... :
9. Convincing an audience by appealing to their emotions.
10. When you are aware of your own bias prejudcies and attitudes towards certain groups
11. Which device is used in the following sentence? It is the way to recovery. It is the immediate way. It is the strongest assurance that recovery will endure.
12. This persuasive technique involves selecting powerful connotations of words or phrases to help our argument.
13. How can we describe what a message is?
14. An image that represents a large or abstract idea.
15. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
16. Greta is famous for saying that we have to "drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C."
17. "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -GandhiThis is an example of a(n) .....
18. "Doctors all over the world recommend this type of treatment."
19. Identify the type of figurative language being used:"The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world ..... "
20. Pick the term that matches the definition:a matter dealt with in a text, discourse, or conversation