The following is a review quiz for the Chapter 5 objectives.
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that tries to side-track someone by bringing up a related but irrelevant topic. |
| | A) | Appeal to popularity |
| | B) | Bandwagon |
| | C) | Subjectivist fallacy |
| | D) | Common practice |
| | E) | Smokescreen |
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that is based on the view called relativism, that what is true for one is not true for another. |
| | A) | Peer pressure |
| | B) | Ridicule |
| | C) | Appeal to pity |
| | D) | Smokescreen |
| | E) | Subjectivist fallacy |
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that encourages the acceptance of a claim on the grounds that it is already accepted by some substantial number of others. |
| | A) | Two wrongs make a right |
| | B) | Appeal to popularity |
| | C) | Wishful thinking |
| | D) | Common practice |
| | E) | Apple polishing |
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that tries to justify an action on the grounds that it is normal behavior, accepted by all or most people. |
| | A) | Peer pressure |
| | B) | Apple polishing |
| | C) | Appeal to anger |
| | D) | Subjectivist fallacy |
| | E) | Common practice |
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that argues for a course of action on the grounds that taking this course will win the approval of others and especially of one's friends. |
| | A) | Appeal to pity |
| | B) | Bandwagon |
| | C) | Two wrongs make a right |
| | D) | Common practice |
| | E) | Peer pressure |
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that plays on our desire to be on the 'winning team." |
| | A) | Subjectivist fallacy |
| | B) | Wishful thinking |
| | C) | Bandwagon |
| | D) | Appeal to pity |
| | E) | Common practice |
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that supports a claim on the grounds that the alternative is too awful to deal with. |
| | A) | Subjectivist fallacy |
| | B) | Common practice |
| | C) | Wishful thinking |
| | D) | Two wrongs make a right |
| | E) | Scare tactics |
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that uses a threat instead of good reasons to get someone to accept a claim. |
| | A) | Subjectivist fallacy |
| | B) | Scare tactics |
| | C) | Appeal to pity |
| | D) | Appeal to anger |
| | E) | Common practice |
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that plays on your compassion to get you to accept a claim instead of relying on sound reasons. |
| | A) | Appeal to anger |
| | B) | Appeal to popularity |
| | C) | Appeal to pity |
| | D) | Wishful thinking |
| | E) | Subjectivist fallacy |
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that might also be called an appeal to vanity. |
| | A) | Appeal to popularity |
| | B) | Common practice |
| | C) | Wishful thinking |
| | D) | Two wrongs make a right |
| | E) | Apple polishing |
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From the list below, select the name of the rhetorical device that attempts to use your anger about something to get you to accept a claim, even though the anger is not presented as relevant to the truth of the claim. |
| | A) | Appeal to anger |
| | B) | Smokescreen |
| | C) | Peer pressure |
| | D) | Scare tactics |
| | E) | Ridicule |
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