Rhetoric Intermediate Quiz 1

1. Which term describes the speaker's conscious effort to adapt their message to the audience's values?

2. What fallacy involves attacking the person rather than the argument?

3. Which rhetorical device involves the omission of conjunctions between related clauses?

4. What is the technical term for a brief, clever statement that expresses a general truth?

5. Which logical structure moves from specific observations to a general conclusion?

6. What is the effect of using a "Periodic" sentence structure?

7. What rhetorical appeal relies on the timing of a speech?

8. Which fallacy assumes a sequence equals causation?

9. What is the rhetorical term for an implied comparison that lasts an entire text?

10. Which device uses two opposite ideas in a grammatically parallel structure?