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Rhetorical Strategies Quiz 9 (25 MCQs)

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1. The food was dreadful and the service was criminal.
2. Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" is a/an
3. ..... is the rules that govern sentence structure in a given language.
4. This strategy intentionally exaggerates conditions for effect.
5. Which rhetorical strategy involves using words that have strong emotional associations to persuade the audience?
6. Sarah had a sick baby and desperately needed time off from work, but her boss didn't want to give her any. When she came back to work, she was fired. It's people like Sarah who prove we need a paid parental leave policy.
7. I would have to grow a third arm to complete the same amount of work my spouse does in an hour.
8. Which of these examples are using emotion?
9. What do you want out of life?
10. "A Holocaust survivor describes what he remembers from the crematoria. He remembers blue flames coming out of a skull."
11. A short and amusing or interesting story about an incident or person
12. Giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object/nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
13. An appeal based on the character/reputation/credibility of the speaker
14. "Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as naught; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness." This is an example of
15. What emotional response is bandwagon advertising most likely trying to evoke in consumers?
16. For a college application, the admissions officers
17. A presidential inaugural address serves the purpose of:
18. The repeating of words, phrases, or clauses for emphasis ..... "I have a dream ..... "
19. Which type of rhetoric uses words/phrases/images that evoke strong emotions?
20. Strategize how to analyze the effectiveness of an author's rhetoric in a text.
21. How does the author's use of pathos contribute to the power of a text?
22. In what way does ethos contribute to the effectiveness of an argument?
23. A figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted order; "Fair is foul and foul is fair"-Shakespeare
24. An individual shares their first-hand experience with poverty and food insecurity throughout their life.
25. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. This is an example of
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