BE 102-RHETORIC QUIZ
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BE 102: Rhetorical Strategies Quiz
Name: ___A J M Abdul Majid 1.
In which country did rhetoric originate?
Answer: Rhetoric originate in the ancient Greece.
2.
Which Greek philosopher is identified with rhetoric?
Answer: Aristotle is identified with rhetoric.
For questions 3-5, use the following website for help with definitions, but use your own words to explain your understanding of the meaning of the terms.
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/establishing_arguments/
rhetorical_strategies.html
3.
What kind of language does logos
use? Use your own words
to explain your understanding of the term.
Answer: Logos language refers to the language that we used to show the logic or reason for a specific case or fact.
4.
What kind of language does ethos
use? Use your own words
to explain your understanding of the
term.
Answer: The term “Ethos” refers to language where the author make a connection with the writer by making a character more realistic to make the reader understand the authors point, what he/she trying to say about his writing by putting his/her own personal experiences and put logical
argument in a mannered way.
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5.
What kind of language does pathos
use? Use your own words
to explain your understanding of the term.
Answer: Pathos used to shows emotional appeals to an audience’s needs, values.
6.
What is your understanding of rhetoric from the material you have read and the videos you have watched? Do not use a definition copied from the internet. Use your own words.
Answer: Rhetoric is any communication used to modify the perspectives of others. Primarily it an awareness of the language choices we make.
7.
Use a quote from any of our readings on rhetoric to help explain your meaning and cite the quote according to MLA style (use the search key in the Purdue Owl website for help on citing).
Answer: We should not equate the character of the people with his invention; on the rhetorical strategies for persuasion the author give an example that, “The Volkswagen Beetle is an evil car because it was originally designed by Hitler’s army” (“Using Rhetorical Strategies for Persuasion”).
8.
Use another quote
from any of our readings on rhetoric to help explain your meaning and cite the quote according to MLA style (use the search key in the Purdue Owl website for help on citing).
Answer: The term ”
Telos” refers to the different purpose explaining a certain thing Aristotle used that term on his speech to explain a particular purpose, “Telos is a term Aristotle used to explain the particular purpose or attitude of a speech” (“Aristotle’s Rhetorical Situation”).
9.
From your class reading here:
https://opTelos enenglishatslcc.pressbooks.com/chapter/writers-make-strategic-choices/
name three elements of the “rhetorical situation.”
Answer: The name of three elements of the “rhetorical situation” are: Text and its message; author; & audience.
10. From your class reading here:
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https://openenglishatslcc.pressbooks.com/chapter/the-rhetorical-situation/
name three other elements of the “rhetorical situation”
Answer: The name of three other elements of the “rhetorical situation are as follows: purpose; exigence; & genre.
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