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WorksheetsRTT: related to the famous appeals and asundry things
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
What appeal is related to the concept of credibility?
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
What appeal is related to cognition?
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
What appeal is related to feeling?
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
What is an enthymeme?
A meme that is enthy.
A truncated syllogism
A bug-related problem
Syllogismus is...
A syllable
An informal logic deduction
A remark which causes the audience to make an obvious conclusion.
"Ratio" in ratiocinatio means...
Reason
Proportion
Fraction
An example of a contrarium could be...
Are you concerned about asking someone to leave who has already been disspelled?
Are you concerned about being right or wrong?
Are you concerned about whether weather is climate?
"Enargia" and "energia" are often confused because they both assume a level of ...
silence
vowel change
energy
Epiplexis statements can be said to be rather....
subtle
confusing
dramatic
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.
Apostrophe
Contraction
Antonym
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.
Contradiction
Contrariness
Conduplicatio
Arguably this term is similar to allusion, echo, reference...
Amnesia
Amoeba
Ananmnesis
"Oh, it's just a little gash" is an example of this rhetorical device:
Litotes
Hyperbole
Irony
Using this as a speaker can backfire if your audience does not understand the nuance and probably humor:
paramount
paranomasia
paranoia
This concept relates to occasion but focuses more on the ideal moment of the occasion
Bathos
Kairos
Ethos
Logos
Requires words to be aptly fit to the occasion, circumstance and each other
Text
Message
Audience
Decorum
A rhetor needs to be mindful of the social, cultural, educational, political, ethnographic backgrounds of this in order to craft an effective appeal.
Audience
Addressor
Speaker
Author
Requires a tenor and a vehicle to create a "figure"
Simile
Allegory
Metaphor
Fabe
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.
Parable
Exigence
Extended metaphor
Farce
This device is used to communicate a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning, typically one that is political or moral in nature.
Analogy
Allegory
Allusion
Anthropomorphism
This is a type of allegory which can be based in myth and legend or the supernatural, and has animals as characters.
Parable
Paradigm
Forms
Fable
This is the term associated with the prompting situations, either rhetorical or non-rhetorical which result in a rhetorical response.
Essence
Existentialism
Exigence
Extemporization
Stasis is ...
A method of inventing an argument
A method of proving an argument
A method of qualifying an argument
All of the above
This part of stasis answers whether or not something occurred (the "did it happen?"):
An Sit
Quid Sit
Quale Sit
Ad Consillium
This part of stasis is a question of definition (or why do we care?).
An Sit
Quid Sit
Quale Sit
Ad Consillium
This part of stasis answers the level of serious (the "so what").
An Sit
Quid Sit
Quale Sit
Ad Consillium
This part of stasis is sometimes used if there is a policy to be made from the outcome.
An Sit
Quid Sit
Quale Sit
Ad Consillium
This argument structure is the classic 5 paragraph type.
Aristotelian
Rogerian
Toulmin
This argument structure is credited to a psychologist.
Aristotelian
Rogerian
Toulmin
This argument structure contains a warrant and backing.
Aristotelian
Rogerian
Toulmin
An appositive serves to...
clarify a term for descriptive emphasis
show the opposite of a term
negate a concept
create a contrast
A simple sentence serves to...
convey a simplistic idea
communicate succinctly a key idea for emphasis
look like a mistake when writing a philosophical argument
have a subject and verb
A rhetorical fragment serves to...
cause a needed editing correction
be a mistake
focus attention "sharply" on an idea
create a broken argument
"To be, or not to be" uses this repetition device
Anaphora
Diacope
Anadiplosis
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" (Animal Farm) uses this repetition device:
Anaphora
Diacope
Anadiplosis
"Every day, every night, every way, I am getting better and better" uses this repetition device.
Anaphora
Diacope
Anadiplosis
"I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of asyndeton because....
there are commas.
there is repetition of "I."
there are no conjunctions like "and."
it is not polysyndeton :)
Better known as Yoda Speak, anastrophe does this:
inverts typical word order (syntax)
poses a rhetorical question
is ceremonial in nature
repeats every word
Ben Franklin uses this kind of "word play" when he says "we must all hang together, or assuredly, we will hang separately."
antonym
auntieann
antwerp
antanaclasis
