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RTT: related to the famous appeals and asundry things

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What appeal is related to the concept of credibility?

a)

Logos

b)

Pathos

c)

Ethos

2.

What appeal is related to cognition?

a)

Logos

b)

Pathos

c)

Ethos

3.

What appeal is related to feeling?

a)

Logos

b)

Pathos

c)

Ethos

4.

What is an enthymeme?

a)

A meme that is enthy.

b)

A truncated syllogism

c)

A bug-related problem

5.

Syllogismus is...

a)

A syllable

b)

An informal logic deduction

c)

A remark which causes the audience to make an obvious conclusion.

6.

"Ratio" in ratiocinatio means...

a)

Reason

b)

Proportion

c)

Fraction

7.

An example of a contrarium could be...

a)

Are you concerned about asking someone to leave who has already been disspelled?

b)

Are you concerned about being right or wrong?

c)

Are you concerned about whether weather is climate?

8.

"Enargia" and "energia" are often confused because they both assume a level of ...

a)

silence

b)

vowel change

c)

energy

9.

Epiplexis statements can be said to be rather....

a)

subtle

b)

confusing

c)

dramatic

10.

Shakespeare uses this technique in many plays, such as in Julius Caesar after Caesar is killed and Antony says something about it's being messy figuratively and literally.

a)

Apostrophe

b)

Contraction

c)

Antonym

11.

War it is that you are bringing into Attica, Aeschines, an Amphictyonic war.—Demosthenes, De corona 143


This rhetorical device is evident in the aforementioned statement.

a)

Contradiction

b)

Contrariness

c)

Conduplicatio

12.

Arguably this term is similar to allusion, echo, reference...

a)

Amnesia

b)

Amoeba

c)

Ananmnesis

13.

"Oh, it's just a little gash" is an example of this rhetorical device:

a)

Litotes

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Irony

14.

Using this as a speaker can backfire if your audience does not understand the nuance and probably humor:

a)

paramount

b)

paranomasia

c)

paranoia

15.

This concept relates to occasion but focuses more on the ideal moment of the occasion

a)

Bathos

b)

Kairos

c)

Ethos

d)

Logos

16.

Requires words to be aptly fit to the occasion, circumstance and each other

a)

Text

b)

Message

c)

Audience

d)

Decorum

17.

A rhetor needs to be mindful of the social, cultural, educational, political, ethnographic backgrounds of this in order to craft an effective appeal.

a)

Audience

b)

Addressor

c)

Speaker

d)

Author

18.

Requires a tenor and a vehicle to create a "figure"

a)

Simile

b)

Allegory

c)

Metaphor

d)

Fabe

19.

This can be found in the form of a poem, a deliberately longer and figurative narrative paragraph, or as a more concrete element of allegory.

a)

Parable

b)

Exigence

c)

Extended metaphor

d)

Farce

20.

This device is used to communicate a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning, typically one that is political or moral in nature.

a)

Analogy

b)

Allegory

c)

Allusion

d)

Anthropomorphism

21.

This is a type of allegory which can be based in myth and legend or the supernatural, and has animals as characters.

a)

Parable

b)

Paradigm

c)

Forms

d)

Fable

22.

This is the term associated with the prompting situations, either rhetorical or non-rhetorical which result in a rhetorical response.

a)

Essence

b)

Existentialism

c)

Exigence

d)

Extemporization

23.

Stasis is ...

a)

A method of inventing an argument

b)

A method of proving an argument

c)

A method of qualifying an argument

d)

All of the above

24.

This part of stasis answers whether or not something occurred (the "did it happen?"):

a)

An Sit

b)

Quid Sit

c)

Quale Sit

d)

Ad Consillium

25.

This part of stasis is a question of definition (or why do we care?).

a)

An Sit

b)

Quid Sit

c)

Quale Sit

d)

Ad Consillium

26.

This part of stasis answers the level of serious (the "so what").

a)

An Sit

b)

Quid Sit

c)

Quale Sit

d)

Ad Consillium

27.

This part of stasis is sometimes used if there is a policy to be made from the outcome.

a)

An Sit

b)

Quid Sit

c)

Quale Sit

d)

Ad Consillium

28.

This argument structure is the classic 5 paragraph type.

a)

Aristotelian

b)

Rogerian

c)

Toulmin

29.

This argument structure is credited to a psychologist.

a)

Aristotelian

b)

Rogerian

c)

Toulmin

30.

This argument structure contains a warrant and backing.

a)

Aristotelian

b)

Rogerian

c)

Toulmin

31.

An appositive serves to...

a)

clarify a term for descriptive emphasis

b)

show the opposite of a term

c)

negate a concept

d)

create a contrast

32.

A simple sentence serves to...

a)

convey a simplistic idea

b)

communicate succinctly a key idea for emphasis

c)

look like a mistake when writing a philosophical argument

d)

have a subject and verb

33.

A rhetorical fragment serves to...

a)

cause a needed editing correction

b)

be a mistake

c)

focus attention "sharply" on an idea

d)

create a broken argument

34.

"To be, or not to be" uses this repetition device

a)

Anaphora

b)

Diacope

c)

Anadiplosis

35.

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" (Animal Farm) uses this repetition device:

a)

Anaphora

b)

Diacope

c)

Anadiplosis

36.

"Every day, every night, every way, I am getting better and better" uses this repetition device.

a)

Anaphora

b)

Diacope

c)

Anadiplosis

37.

"I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of asyndeton because....

a)

there are commas.

b)

there is repetition of "I."

c)

there are no conjunctions like "and."

d)

it is not polysyndeton :)

38.

Better known as Yoda Speak, anastrophe does this:

a)

inverts typical word order (syntax)

b)

poses a rhetorical question

c)

is ceremonial in nature

d)

repeats every word

39.

Ben Franklin uses this kind of "word play" when he says "we must all hang together, or assuredly, we will hang separately."

a)

antonym

b)

auntieann

c)

antwerp

d)

antanaclasis