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12th Grade Debate & Discussion Quizzes, Questions & Answers

12th Grade

Recent Debate & Discussion Quizzes

Loc Chapters 1 And 2 Quiz

Questions: 22 | Attempts: 753 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025

Sample Question
Which of the following completes the two blanks in the rhetorical triangle diagram?

Aristotle

Time period

Speaker

Subject

Occasion

AP English Test On Rhetorical Devices And Fallacies! Trivia Quiz

Questions: 22 | Attempts: 216 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025

Sample Question
Expletive

Is a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax, used to lend emphasis to the words immediately proximate to the _________. (We emphasize the words on each side of a pause or interruption in order to maintain continuity of the thought.)

Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list of items, ______ gives the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account:

Is the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. The rhetorical effect of ______, however, often shares with that of asyndeton a feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and building up.

Repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next. it can be generated in series for the sake of beauty or to give a sense of logical progression

Resembles anadiplosis in the repetition of a preceding word, but it repeats a key word (not just the last word) from a preceding phrase, clause, or sentence, at the beginning of the next.

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