Final Exam

Question 1

Luke 6:45 teaches us that…

Answer 1

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Question 2

What did Plato think of rhetoric?

Answer 2

Rhetoric accomplishes what it does on the basis of experience, not knowledge.

Question 3

Aristotle asserts that “rhetoric is the counterpart” of what?

Answer 3

Dialectic

Question 4

What is Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric?

Answer 4

“The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.”

Question 5

What are the three appeals of rhetoric?

Answer 5

Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Question 6

Character/ ethics

Answer 6

Ethos

Question 7

Emotion

Answer 7

Pathos

Question 8

Reason

Answer 8

Logos

Question 9

What are the five canons of rhetoric?

Answer 9

Invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery

Question 10

Courtroom or legal (past)

Answer 10

Forensic

Question 11

Praise or blame (present)

Answer 11

Epideictic

Question 12

Persuade toward particular course of action (future)

Answer 12

Deliberative

Question 13

Enthymeme

Answer 13

The substance of rhetorical persuasion, but deal mainly with non-essentials

Question 14

According to Aristotle, what are the four forms of government?

Answer 14

Democracy, oligarchy, aristocracy, monarchy

Question 15

What three things inspire confidence in the orator’s own character according to Aristotle?

Answer 15

Good sense, good moral character, goodwill

Question 16

What three points does Aristotle make that are required to arouse emotion?

Answer 16

1. what state of mind the person is in
2. who the people are that the person is showing the emotion towards
3. on what grounds they have that emotion

Question 17

According to Aristotle, what are a few things that cause friendship?

Answer 17

Doing kindnesses, doing those kindnesses unasked, not proclaiming the fact that they are done

Question 18

What do the correspondences in Screwtape Letters aim to accomplish?

Answer 18

To deceive the Patient against God and tell the Patient lies.

Question 19

Attack on a person instead of the argument

Answer 19

Ad hominem

Question 20

An argument based on an appeal to fear or a threat

Answer 20

Argumentum ad baculum

Question 21

Concluding that an idea has merit simply because many people believe it or practice it

Answer 21

Bandwagon fallacy

Question 22

Causal relationship between two states or events on the basis of temporal succession “it happened after, so it was caused by”

Answer 22

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

Question 23

An implied comparison between two different things which share at least one attribute in common

Answer 23

Metaphor

Question 24

An overt comparison between two unlike things as though they were similar – usually with the words “like” or “as”.

Answer 24

Simile

Question 25

Figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker; raising and responding to one’s own question

Answer 25

Hypophora

Question 26

Figure which asks a question, not for the purpose of further discussion, but to assert or deny an answer implicitly; a question whose answer is obvious or implied

Answer 26

Rhetorical question

Question 27

Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions

Answer 27

Polysyndeton

Question 28

Figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or clauses

Answer 28

Asyndeton

Question 29

Figure of association in which a highly unusual or outlandish comparison is made between two things.

Answer 29

Catachresis

Question 30

Figure that binds together two words that are ordinarily contradictory

Answer 30

Oxymoron

Question 31

What was Newport’s goal in writing Digital Minimalism?

Answer 31

To make the case for digital minimalism, including a more detailed exploration of what it asks and why it works, and then to teach you how to adopt this philosophy.