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Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 59 (25 MCQs)

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1. Evaluate the emotional impact of the quote 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'
2. Conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose
3. A brief reference to a person, event, object, time period, literary work, etc. (example:Don't be such a Scrooge! The good Samaritan appeared on the scene. His smile is like kryptonite to me.)
4. Attacking a person or group in order to discredit an idea with which the person or group is associated; distracts the reader from the real issue.
5. What is a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle?
6. Identify the term for the omission of conjunctions in a list.
7. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!
8. Diction is
9. Name the rhetorical device: "We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers ..... in English, Hebrew, and Arabic." -George Bush, Address to the Nation on Terrorism
10. An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly known, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.
11. "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" (William Shakespeare, As You Like It).
12. A characteristic spirit of a given culture, era, or community or its beliefs; is a label used to identify an appeal to the moral principles of a culture or individual
13. Which rhetorical appeal is considered the most reliable in argumentation?
14. Use of a concrete object to represent an abstract quality or idea.
15. An ethical appeal to establish credibility and trust.
16. Giving human elements to non-human things
17. A device used to create contrast by placing two parallel but opposite ideas in a sentence
18. "Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don't want their tax money wasted, by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon. Go in ..... Go into any inner city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach our kids to learn;" The blue text:
19. Wear Nikes. People will notice, people will talk, because people want them.
20. How does the speaker's tone affect the overall message of a speech?
21. The Chipotle in Manchester is the worst restaurant in the entire world. We need to get it shut down and replace it with a Moe's!
22. An appeal to logic and reason.
23. "Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us."-John F. KennedyWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote?
24. What is the meaning of logical fallacy?
25. A type of figurative language that compares two things without using "like" or "as"
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