Unit 2 Practice Test

A report of an event or experience by someone who was there at the time of the event or experience.

• secondary account

• connotation

• primary account

• denotation

A rhetorical appeal used to persuade the audience based on the speaker’s credibility, social standing, and/or knowledge.

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

• bias

An idea, feeling, or emotion that a word evokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

• connotation

• denotation

• logos

• bias

An account that is created after an event, typically by someone who did not have a direct experience of the event.

• primary account

• secondary account

• connotation

• denotation

An approach that uses facts, logic, and reasons to appeal to the reader or audience’s rationality.

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

• bias

When a writer or speaker exhibits a partiality for - or prejudice against - a person, a topic, or an idea.

• bias

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

A technique used to make the audience feel a certain way by eliciting an emotion(s).

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• bias

The literal or explicit meaning of a word; the definition of a word as it may be found in a dictionary or glossary.

• connotation

• denotation

• primary account

• secondary account

What is the primary purpose of the speech?

•  to explain how plastics are made

• to argue for reducing single-use plastics

• to describe the history of recycling

• to convince students to use more plastic

The speaker compares the Earth to what?

• a home

• a machine

• a classroom

• a landfill