Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 29 (30 MCQs)

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1. When a year is the best AND the worst in your life, it can be labeled
2. An appeal to the ethics and credibility of a speaker or source is called
3. "You are easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart" is an example of:
4. Which of the following best defines the term rhetorical device?
5. Deafening silence
6. The appeal based on the character, credibility, or reliability of the writer:
7. A Rhetorical Device is the use of language that is meant to have .....
8. The three rhetorical appeals are .....
9. To convince based on the authority of the speaker or expert sources
10. Rhetorical Devicewhen someone says something that says less than what they actually mean (they are downplaying)
11. The emotional appeal in rhetoric is known as:
12. Which rhetorical appeal is primarily concerned with the credibility or ethical character of the speaker?
13. Sentences such as "Nonpeople rented for a few hours, a few days, a few weeks" (53) are examples of
14. A thesis statement that does not list all the points the writer intends to cover
15. Word choice that sets the mood is called .....
16. "that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
17. Changing "the boy looked at the girl" to "the boy's longing gaze at the girl was not reciprocated" is an example of .....
18. An appeal to emotions is called
19. This is the study of persuasive language
20. "The shackles of injustice" is an example of which rhetorical device?
21. " ..... our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating:'For Whites Only." '
22. What is it called in a rhetorical situation when you acknowledge your opponent's argument, and refute it before they can speak
23. What rhetorical devices are used in "I Have a Dream" speech?
24. "I have a dream that my four little children will [ ..... ] I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia [ ..... ] I have a dream today!"What type of persuasive rhetoric is this?
25. What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below? "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared todream before" - "The Raven, " Edgar Allan Poe
26. The speech contains information, examples, statistics, etc.
27. How does Martin Luther King Jr. use the rhetorical appeal of pathos in his letter?
28. "He accepted the book, looked at it as though it were his enemy" (88) is an example of
29. A comparison between two things using like or as.
30. "But it is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope ..... because the nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out."