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Rhetoric
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Subject
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 34 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. An understatement - This is quite a nice city -- instead of it's a fabulous city
Image
Diction
Litotes
Allusion
2. An indirect expression of unpleasant information: 'Passed away' for dead.
Apposition
Diction
Euphemism
Five parts of the story
3. Pre-writing (think: brainstorm - list) - Draft (write) - Revise (improve) - Proof - Publish
Apposition
Syllogism
Pathos
The writing process
4. Basic-Rhetorical-Mode: Noting similarities and differences between objects - people - characteristics - and actions.
Classification
Compare and Contrast
Trope
Pathos
5. Exposition/Introduction - Rising Action - Climax - Falling Action - Dénouement - resolution - or catastrophe
The writing process
Five parts of the story
SYNTAX
Example or Illustration
6. One independent clause and at least one dependent clause
Parable
Complex Sentence
Apology
Allusion
7. Appeal of the text to the emotions or interests of the audience.
Pathos
Syllogism
Allegory
Ellipsis
8. An elaborate statement justifying a controversial position -- 'We hold these truths to be self evident ...'
Litotes
Assonance
Apology
Euphemism
9. Implied meaning of a word
Litotes
Example or Illustration
Connotation
Apology
10. Short story that illustrates a moral or religious principle.
Parable
Compare and Contrast
Image
Apology
11. The direct address of an absent person or personified object as if they can reply -- Romeo O Romeo Wherefore art thou Romeo
Epanalepsis
Connotation
Apostrophe
Ellipsis
12. The repetition of consonant sounds of TWO or more adjacent words.
Alliteration
Trope
Epanalepsis
Apposition
13. A passage of text that evokes sensation: Waves crashing on the ocean looks like knives.
Pathos
Image
Allegory
Apostrophe
14. Logical meaning from inarguable premises - all mortals die - all humans are mortal - all humans die
Example or Illustration
Syllogism
Genre
SYNTAX
15. A reference in a written or spoken text to some other piece of knowledge.
Parallelism
SYNTAX
Allusion
Compare and Contrast
16. Repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two more more adjacent words -- 'Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies.'
SYNTAX
Assonance
Compound complex sentence
Apposition
17. Extended metaphor:
Syllogism
Allegory
Apology
Connotation
18. Repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses: We shall not go on - we shall fight in France - we shall fight with confidence!
Image
Symbol
Anaphora
Assonance
19. Order of words in a sentence
Syllogism
SYNTAX
Ellipsis
Apposition
20. Word choice which is viewed on the scales of formality and informality.
The writing process
Analogy
Parallelism
Diction
21. A set of similarly structured words or clauses: The dog ran - stumbled - and fell.
Classification
Parallelism
The writing process
Allegory
22. Basic-Rhetorical-Mode: Using specific examples to illustrate an idea.
Five parts of the story
Genre
Symbol
Example or Illustration
23. Writing that implies the contrary of What is actually written:
Irony
Point of view
Connotation
Epanalepsis
24. Perspective of a piece of writing: First - second third - etc.
Allegory
Genre
Point of view
Five parts of the story
25. Basic-Rhetorical-Mode: Grouping material so it is easier to understand.
SYNTAX
Classification
Euphemism
Epanalepsis
26. Two nouns that are adjacent to each other and reference the same thing -- My dog Toto
Euphemism
Apposition
Compound complex sentence
Epanalepsis
27. Basic-Rhetorical-Mode: A comparison used to explain something.
Analogy
Euphemism
Compound complex sentence
The writing process
28. Writing categorized by type (science fiction - romance)
Parable
Genre
Euphemism
The writing process
29. The omission of words -- but context is provided by the context of the passage
Allusion
Ellipsis
Image
Symbol
30. Repetition at the end of a clause: 'Blood hath brought blood.'
Symbol
Point of view
Epanalepsis
Allusion
31. The element that stands for more than itself -- Purple symbolizes royalty
Parable
Symbol
Epanalepsis
Allusion
32. Unusual or inverted word order -- Judge me by my size do you ?
Parable
Analogy
Apology
Hyperbation
33. An artful variation from expected modes of expression -- Pun for example
The writing process
Genre
Trope
Parallelism
34. Sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clause.
Apology
Point of view
Compound complex sentence
Five parts of the story