6/25/2021 Midterm Quiz 1: Attempt review

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Question 1 It changes in the sound or arrangement of a sequence of words, such as

anaphora or asyndeton.

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Mark 1.00 out of Select one:

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a. Figures of speech
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b. Virtues

c. Ornamentation

d. Figures of thought

Your answer is correct.

Question 2 It is the correctness of grammar and usage, clarity, ornamentation, and propriety.

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Mark 1.00 out of Select one:

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a. Figures of thought

b. Ornamentation

c. Figures of speech

d. Virtues
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Your answer is correct.

Question 3 Gorgias was considered as the father of Sophistry because he ushered the innovation of rhetoric on a basic technical
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Select one:
True 

False

Question 4 It is a statement that is recast to stress it or achieve audience contact, as in the rhetorical question.

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Mark 1.00 out of Select one:

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a. Ornamentation

b. Virtues

c. Figures of thought
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d. Figures of speech

Your answer is correct.

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Question 5 What are the two parts of style?

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Mark 2.00 out of Select one or more:

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a. Composition
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b. Aretai

c. Ornamentation

d. Dictio
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e. Language

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Question 6 Gorgias of Leontini is the teacher of Empedocles.

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Mark 1.00 out of Select one:

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True

False 

Question 7 It includes "tropes," literally "turnings" or

substitutions of one term for another; as in metaphor.

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Mark 1.00 out of Select one:

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a. Ornamentation
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b. Virtues

c. Figures of speech

d. Figures of thought

Your answer is correct.

Question 8 Gorgias is an Aristocratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC.

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True

False 

Question 9 It is a deliberate process of casting subject into language; the same ideas can be expressed in different words with
Correct different effects.

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Select one:
a. Arrangement

b. Memory

c. Invention

d. Style
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Question 10 Match the following type of style with its meaning.

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Mark 10.00 out Irony

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Use of a word to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word 

Oxymoron
Juxtaposing two ordinarily contradictory terms 

Metaphor
Implied comparison between two things of unlike nature 

Parallelism
Similarity of structure 

Simile
Explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature 

Apposition
Juxtaposing two co-ordinate elements 

Hyperbole
The use of exaggerated terms for emphasis or heightened effect 

Onomatopoeia
Use of words whose sound echoes the sense 

Personification
Investing human qualities in abstractions or inanimate objects 

Assonance
Repetition of similar vowel sounds 

Your answer is correct.

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