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Analyzing the Use of Rhetoric, Part 1 — Quiz Answers

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Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you! How does the exclamation "How dare you!” make the speaker’s claim persuasive?

A
It appeals to logic by blaming those who have caused the most damage.
B
It appeals to emotions by emphasizing how enraged the speaker is.
C
It appeals to a sense of time by expressing a desire for immediate change.
D
It appeals to authority by showing the speaker as a knowledgeable figure.
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Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you! Which type of rhetorical device is used in this excerpt?

A
kairos, because the speaker emphasizes how important it is for the audience to immediately address problems in the environment
B
pathos, because the language used emphasizes the personal nature of the damage that the audience is causing
C
logos, because the speaker uses facts to support her conclusion that the audience is intentionally harming others
D
ethos, because the speaker highlights her qualifications to authoritatively address the audience about how they have neglected to protect the environment
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Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not. Which rhetorical appeal is used in this excerpt?

A
ethos; the speaker is appealing to emotions by discussing change for the future
B
kairos; the speaker is emphasizing the importance of the current moment in time
C
kairos; the speaker is using data and research to persuade the audience
D
ethos; the speaker is proving her credibility by showing her knowledge
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Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe . How does the underlined sentence create pathos to make the speaker’s claim persuasive?

A
It implies that those responsible for combatting climate change are doing the best they can.
B
It shifts the tone of the argument from one of resentment to one of regret.
C
It highlights the intensity of her disagreement with the actions of her audience.
D
It suggests that the speaker sees the humanity in her audience despite her disappointment.
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Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. The claim in this excerpt is that current efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions are ineffective. So a 50 percent risk is simply not acceptable to us—we who have to live with the consequences. To have a 67 percent chance of staying below a 1 point 5 degrees global temperature rise—the best odds given by the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]—the world had 420 gigatons of CO 2 left to emit back on January 1, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons. How does this excerpt make persuasive the speaker’s claim persuasive?

A
It creates ethos by revealing the speaker’s research on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
B
It creates pathos by inciting an emotional response to the low levels of CO 2 left to emit.
C
It creates kairos by including a specific date by which changes must be made in order to be effective.
D
It creates logos by using data and evidence on climate change.
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Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO 2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. Which type of reasoning does the speaker use to make the argument?

A
inductive, because she moves from specific details to a broad conclusion
B
inductive, because she begins with a specific example and uses it to draw a narrow conclusion
C
deductive, because she uses a pattern to justify a generalization
D
abductive, because she starts with a generalization and moves toward a specific conclusion
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Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. So a 50 percent risk is simply not acceptable to us—we who have to live with the consequences. To have a 67 percent chance of staying below a 1 point 5 degrees global temperature rise—the best odds given by the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]—the world had 420 gigatons of CO 2 left to emit back on January 1, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons. How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just "business as usual” and some technical solutions? With today’s emissions levels, that remaining CO 2 budget will be entirely gone within less than 8 and 1 half years. How does Thunberg use reasoning in this excerpt?

A
She moves from a general premise about CO 2 usage to a specific prediction about emissions.
B
She moves from a specific pattern in global temperature rise to a generalization about emissions.
C
She moves from a general premise about climate risks to a generalization about solutions.
D
She moves from a specific observation about the climate to a general conclusion about CO 2 .
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Read the sentence. You can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl. Which rhetorical device is used in this sentence?

A
chiasmus
B
zeugma
C
antithesis
D
asyndeton
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What is kairos?

A
an appeal to the concept of time or place
B
an appeal to authority or credible sources
C
an appeal to logic through evidence and reasons
D
an appeal to emotions through details or examples
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Which sentence is an example of zeugma?

A
On our family’s trip to South Africa, we tried many new, fantastic dishes we had never had before, including one called bobotie.
B
Regarding his accent, my father always said, “You can take the boy out of Georgia, but you can’t take Georgia out of the boy.”
C
The fire was finally extinguished, along with my dreams of opening a Mediterranean restaurant.
D
The general demanded more boots on the ground to assist with the aftermath of the hurricane.

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