Rhetoric Quiz 376 (20 MCQs)

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1. The use of statistics and evidence are one of the strategies are examples of .....

Correct Answer: A) Logos.

2. How can you establish more ethos?

Correct Answer: A) Use specialized jargon or terms.

3. Which component of rhetoric appeals to ethics and credibility?

Correct Answer: A) Ethos.

4. Is this an appeal to ethos?"We really should try that recipe. Someone told me it was good."

Correct Answer: B) No.

5. Magazine Advertisement:Four out of five doctors recommend drinking three glasses of milk per day to stay healthy and strong.

Correct Answer: A) Transfer.

6. Which appeal is speaker focused?

Correct Answer: A) Ethos.

7. When an ACT test question gives the option to delete a transition word or phase, you should

Correct Answer: B) Usually best to choose to delete the transitional word or phrase.

8. A claim that one event leads to another event and so on until we come to some awful conclusion

Correct Answer: B) Slippery Slope.

9. The purpose of repetition is:

Correct Answer: B) To make the reader remember a key word.

10. A reference to some famous literary work

Correct Answer: D) Allusion.

11. The arrangement of words and sentences

Correct Answer: A) Syntax.

12. Effects used to make a text truly persuasive to its audience.

Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical appeals.

13. Study involving the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.

Correct Answer: D) Semantics.

14. Choose the correct term for the following definition:To criticize or express disapproval of

Correct Answer: A) Deprecate.

15. Which rhetorical device involves using exaggeration for emphasis or effect?

Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole.

16. When a speaker establishes trustworthiness, he or she employs

Correct Answer: A) Ethical appeals.

17. The time and place of a story, whichusually play an important role in the plotevents.

Correct Answer: C) Setting.

18. Name the parts of SPACECAT

Correct Answer: B) Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence, Choices, Appeals, Tone.

19. Explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion

Correct Answer: A) Exposition.

20. Give someone the cold shoulder

Correct Answer: A) Idiom.