Rhetoric Quiz 397 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... reasoning is making an inference based on an observation, often of a sample.
2. Which of the following is an example of anadiplosis?
3. "Don't let down the ones you love, buy Secure-It."
4. Introducing new and creative ideas or methods.
5. Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample that is inadequate is referred to as .....
6. Combine so as to form a more complex product, etc.
7. You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches, and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to dramatize the issue so that it can no longer be ignored.
8. Which statement is a valid generalization?
9. What device is used in the following example: "While a few studies have shown that some snacks may have negative health effects, the solution to this issue is not a complete ban on junk food."
10. Pick the term that matches the definition:the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists
11. Which of the following is an example of parallel structure?
12. A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. (If the authorship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) Can be a memorable summation of the author's point.
13. Type of appeal: "By donating fifty cents a day ..... your child can have clean drinking water ..... "
14. What is the purpose of using allusions in a writer's work?
15. Which rhetorical appeal aims to establish the credibility and trustworthiness of the speaker or writer?
16. What does it mean to show bias?
17. Every text has a purpose.
18. A question posed by the speaker/author in order to bring attention to an issue; used to lean on the emotions of an audience
19. The recurrence of initial consonant sounds
20. A figure of speech; an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas