Drafting the Rhetorical Analysis (MLA)

PARTICIPATION 2.26 (REVIEW)

• Central Idea

• Rhetorical Context (Purpose, Audience, Tone)

• Rhetorical Appeals (Logos, Pathos, Ethos)

• Methods of Development

• MLA

• Grammar

Multiple Choice

What is the central idea?

• Listening to music cannot improve physical or mental health.

• Music can enhance mental and physical well-being, thereby enriching one's overall quality of life.

• Background music causes people with mid-stage dementia to consume more calories

• Music helps eliminate stress and anxiety.

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of the text?

• To explain the process of learning a musical instrument.

• To explain the neurological and cognitive effects of listening to and playing music..

• To explain how music can reduce calorie intake and increase satisfaction

• To explain how music can harm organizational and spatial awareness skills

Multiple Choice

Which option best describes the target audience?

• People who are interested in the intersection of music and neuroscience

• People who want to learn about the history of music therapy

• People who want to pursue a career in the music industry

• People who want to learn how to play in the orchestra

Multiple Choice

Which option best describes the tone?

• skeptical

• objective

• informative

• unconcerned

Multiple Choice

Read the passage below. Identify the method of development.
"...if somebody had a stroke they may walk with a what's called a three-point gate what I would do then is I would provide a strong beat which then they would entrain to and then before long they would be walking with a step to a home cane or they'd be going Kane step cane step."

• Process analysis
• Classification

• Comparison
• Narrative

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical appeal is primarily used in the following passage?

"So I use music as a tool to achieve non-musical goals; so I'm not really here to help my clients learn how to sing better or play an instrument better or do anything like that. My job is to help, you know, people learn to walk better, learn to speak clearer, using music as my tool to help them."

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

PARTICIPATION 2.26 (REVIEW)

• Grammar

• MLA

Multiple Choice

Identify the grammar error in the sentence below.
Apparently, we tend to match our eating speed to the tempo of background music faster music makes us eat more quickly, whereas slower music will make us linger over our meals longer.

• Subject-verb agreement error
• Run-on sentence (Fused sentence)

• Sentence fragment

Multiple Choice

Identify the grammar error in the sentence below.
According to the ‘expectation theory

• Subject-verb agreement error
• Run-on sentence (Comma splice error)

• Run-on sentence (Fused sentence)

• Sentence fragment

Multiple Choice

Identify the grammar error in the sentence below.
Sounds plays a key role in our eating experiences – from the sizzle of bacon frying to the distinctive snap of a chocolate bar.

• Subject-verb agreement error
• Run-on sentence (Comma splice error)

• Run-on sentence (Fused sentence)

• Sentence fragment

Multiple Choice

Identify the grammar error in the sentence below.
Even the sound of a food’s packaging can alter our perception of the food’s quality crisp makers know this well, and deliberately design their crisp packets to be as noisy as possible, to increase the impression of crispness and freshness.

• Pronoun Error

• Run-on sentence
  (fused sentence)

• Subject-verb agreement error

Multiple Choice

Which option best describes the passage below?
Because of this, it is possible to compose music tracks designed to enhance specific flavors in food. As one study demonstrated for chocolate. Participants rated the chocolates as sweeter when it heard a high-frequency ‘sweet’ chocolate soundtrack, compared with a lower-frequency, more dissonant ‘bitter’ soundtrack.

• Complete sentence

• Sentence fragment

• Sentence fragment and pronoun error.

Multiple Choice

Which option is the correct MLA page header format?

• Student's Name
  Name of College
  Instructor's Name
  Course Name
  Date as day month year
  

• Student's Name
  Instructor's Name
  Course Name
  Date as day month year

Multiple Choice

Which option is the correct MLA title format (for an article on a website)?

• "How do sound and music affect the way we eat?"

• "How do sound and music affect the way we eat?"

• How do sound and music affect the way we eat?

Multiple Choice

Which option is the correct MLA in-text citation?

• According to the author, "Playing French music in British supermarkets, for example, can lead to French wines outselling German brands, whilst a study in a USA university canteen found that playing instrumental Spanish music led to more students choosing paella rather than the Italian chicken parmesan" (Wood).

• According to the author, "Playing French music in British supermarkets, for example, can lead to French wines outselling German brands, whilst a study in a USA university canteen found that playing instrumental Spanish music led to more students choosing paella rather than the Italian chicken parmesan" (Caroline Wood).

• According to the author, "Playing French music in British supermarkets, for example, can lead to French wines outselling German brands, whilst a study in a USA university canteen found that playing instrumental Spanish music led to more students choosing paella rather than the Italian chicken parmesan" (www.unfolded.com).

Multiple Choice

Which option is the correct format for the MLA Work Cited Page Format?

• Work Cited as Title
  Entries in alphabetical order

  Hanging indent
  Double-spaced

  Plain text

• Work Cited as Title
  Entries in alphabetical order

  Hanging indent
  Single-spaced

  Plain text

• References as Title
  Entries in alphabetical order

  Hanging indent
  Double-spaced

  Plain text

Word Cloud

What is your favorite song or type of food? Answer in 1-2 words.