Rhetoric Questions
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- Q1What is the appeal to the right timing?PathosLogosKairosEthos30s
- Q2What is the appeal to the audience's emotions?EthosLogosPathosKairos30s
- Q3What is the appeal to the audience's logic?EthosLogosPathosKairos30s
- Q4What is the appeal to one's credibility?PathosEthosLogosKairos30s
- Q5When does the Rhetorical Situation happen?Whenever someone is communicatingOnly whenever there is a speechOnly whenever there is a paperOnly whenever someone is thinking30s
- Q6When are the Rhetorical Appeals employed?Only in writingOnly in commercialsWhenever someone is communicatingOften when someone is attempting to persuade someone else30s
- Q7When does one first consider the Rhetorical Canon?During the communication processAfter the communication processIt never happensWhen first commissioned to communicate30s
- Q8What is the thing that provokes the author to communicate?KairosExigenceInventionPurpose30s
- Q9What is the term for when the author wants the audience to do something after encountering the text?ExigenceArrangementPurposeLogos30s
- Q10Who termed the following definition: "Rhetoric is the faculty of discovering the available means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatsoever"?PlatoAristotleEuripedesSocrates30s
- Q11In the Greek definition for "rhetoric," "faculty" means what?LawGroupArtKnowledge30s
- Q12True or false: Rhetoric is something rhetors (those who practice rhetoric) immediately know how to employ.TRUEFALSE30s
- Q13What is "the specific language that the author chooses to communicate their ideas"?DeliveryStyleExigenceInvention30s
- Q14What is "the way the author decides to offer their ideas (usually limited to speeches)"?ExigenceStyleDeliveryInvention30s
- Q15What is "the author deciding on what to communicate"?ArrangementPurposeInventionDelivery30s