Rhetoric Quiz 86 (20 MCQs)

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1. Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience.
2. "I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers." ..... Langston Hughes
3. Something that a listener has to be careful of regarding logos is that
4. "Ideas worth spreading" .
5. When your friend asks you a yes or no question and you reply with "Is grass green?" is an example of .....
6. An intentional exaggeration
7. The characteristic of selecting facts, words, or emphasis to achieve a preconceived intent
8. Think of how hard it would be for your family to live without you if you died in a car accident. Don't text and drive ..... think of those you love.
9. What does the "O" in SOAPSTONE stand for?
10. The speaker compares one thing with another, by implying that one thing is another
11. "We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, ..... we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be!" is an example of .....
12. A usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical; a short account of an event
13. In ethos, the writer or speaker presents himself or herself as
14. "Justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
15. Large companies (Tyson/Monsanto) declined interviews for the documentary. One farmer, Vince was willing to allow interviewers to enter his chicken house, but changed his mind after several visits from Tyson representatives.
16. Rhetoric has to be ethical. What is ethical?
17. The sun smiled back at us as we sat on the beach on a warm summer day.
18. Repetition at the end of a line. Example: "See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil."
19. An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements.
20. "Two girls fought today in the cafe. I ate a burger in lunch. So basically I was distracted all day and I could not complete the extra homework I was supposed to do." The speaker's ..... is that teenagers sometimes have a lot of distractions which prevent them from doing what they need to get done.