"The Flight from Conversation"

Who is the author of "The Flight from Conversation"?

• Jane McGonigal

• Oprah Winfrey

• Mrs. Heenan

• Sherry Turkle

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What is the claim in "The Flight from Conversation"?

• We are allowing technology to have a negative effect on our personal lives.

• We are leaving reality in droves.

• Life is like a box of chocolates.

• Don't look at your phone during class.

What is NOT one of the devices Turkle uses to support her claim?

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Comparison

• Hyperbole

Ethos is an argument based on

• facts and logic.

• character and credibility.

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A comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as is called a...

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Allusion

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"A tribe of one" is an example of which rhetorical device?

• Pathos

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Allusion

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How would allusion be defined?

• a reference to a famous person, place, or event

• words that involve one of the five senses

• two lines working as a unit

• giving an animal or inanimate object abilities that only a human can have

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"Over the past 15 years, I've studied technologies of mobile connection and talked to hundreds of people of all and ages and circumstances about their plugged in lives." This is an example of what appeal or device?

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Oxymoron

• Comparison

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"A business man laments that he no longer has colleagues at work. He doesn't stop by to talk; he doesn't call. He says he doesn't want to interrupt them." This is example of what device or appeal?

• Hyperbole

• Rhetorical Question

• Oxymoron

• Anecdote

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"We can't get enough of one another if we can use technology to keep one another at distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just right. I think of it as a Goldilocks effect." This reference to "Goldilocks" is an example of a(n)

• Hyperbole

• Rhetorical question

• Allusion

• Simile

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