Persuasion MCQs (Chapterwise Multiple Choice Questions)

When you read a nonfiction passage - you must decide what information is important and what is not. What you must remember is the essential information. Essential information is necessary to understand a passage. This includes the main idea and the s

Essential information

Limited Options ; Either/Or

Unique claim

Transfer

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Essential information

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Questioning or proving the existence or actuality of some event - action - thing - person

Physical evidence

Post Hoc - Ergo Propter Hoc

Weasel words

Circumstantial evidence

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Physical evidence

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The ability to make a 'rational' link between your claim and evidence - which helps the audience consent to your argument

Post Hoc - Ergo Propter Hoc

Pathos

Snob appeal

Reason

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Reason

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To misrepresent your opponents argument; to seemingly refute your opponent's argument when in fact you have not accurately described his/her position

Avant-farde

Straw man

Testimonials

Logos

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Straw man

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The dictionary definition of a word

Emotional appeal

Proof

Ipse Dixit

Denotation

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Denotation

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To reduce complex matters to an either/or logic

Basic rhetorical questions

False dichotomy

Propaganda

Enthymeme

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: False dichotomy

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The generally held opinion held prior to the debate

Begging the Question/Assertion

Opinion

Propaganda

Status Quo

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Status Quo

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A logical appeal or an appeal to reason (facts - statistics - and expert testimony)

Logos

Unique claim

Begging the Question/Assertion

Nonessential information

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Logos

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When you assume that the audience will automatically supply and accept an unspoken premise; construct an argument that does not explicitly state all the premises because you know the audience members will fill in those premises on their own.

Enthymeme

Proposition of interpretation

Perception

Reason

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Enthymeme

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An ethical appeal that establishes the speaker's or writer's credibility and trustworthiness

Perception

Straw man

Nonessential information

Ethos

Answer & Explanation

Correct Answer: Ethos

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