Mid Term Exam

English 1301-8504 Mid-Term Quiz

(Four points for each correct answer; maximum possible score 120)

I. True or False

____1. Credibility speaks to a writer’s honesty and respect for the audience.

____2. Aristotle used the term Enthymeme to describe a very ordinary kind of sentence, one that includes both a claim and a reason.

____3. Amy Tan confirms the racial stereotype of Asians as math nerds.

____4. Aristotle claimed that all arguments can be reduce to just two components: Statement and Proof.

____5. Humor has not always played an important part in argumentation.

____6. Credibility is a measure of how much command someone has over a subject.

II. Fill in the Blank

1. As a writer, you can establish ______________ by connecting your own beliefs and values to core principles that are well established and widely respected, using language that shows your respect for readers and addressing them neither above nor below their capabilities.

2. According to Toulmin argument, the words sometimes, often, presumably, unless, and almost are the words used in situations when people have to ____________their thoughts.

3. ”________” said John Adams, “Are stubborn things,” And so they make strong arguments, espically when readers beleive they come from honest sources.

4.  ____________ is the fallacy of argument in which claim is supported on the grounds that its the only conclusion acceptable within a given community. 

5. The British philosopher Stephen ___________ developed a method that accurately described the way people make convincing and reasonable arguments.

6. Emotional appeals, also called appeals to __________ are powerful tools for influencing what people think and believe. 

7 – 10. There are 3 types of deductive syllogisms: ____________, _____________, ___________.

 

III. Matching, Introduction to Rhetoric:

1 -3. Appeals:

___ Logos        a. Emotional appeals or appeals to the heart.

___ Pathos       b. Appeals based on the writer’s authority and credibility.

___ Ethos         c. Logical appeals or appeals to reason.

4 – 6. Occasions for Argument:

___ Past           a. Deliberative Discourse

___ Present      b. Forensic Discourse

___ Future        c. Epideictic (Ceremonial) Discourse

IV. Matching, Fallacies

____1. Slippery slope                       (a.) Uses tender emotions excessively.

____2. Sentimental appeals              (b.) Writer exaggerates likely consequences of an                     action, usually to frighten readers

____3. Bandwagon appeals              (c.) urges people to follow the same path everyone is taking.

____4. Scare Tactics                        (d.) inference drawn from insufficient evidence

____5. either-or-choices                  (e.) used to stampede legitimate fears into panic or prejudice

____6. hasty generalization              (f.) simplifies arguments by reducing the options for action to only two choices.

 

 

 

 

 

VII. Multiple Choice

1. For what reason does the nymph reject the sheperd’s proposal in the “Battle of the Sexes”

a.  She is afraid of the sheperd.

b. She see’s the reality behind his proposal.

c. She is already in love with someone else.

d. She is scared of commitment.

2. In “Love is a Fallacy” what did Polly answer when asked why she would go steady with Petey Bellows?

a. He has a raccoon coat.

b. He is cute.

c. He is intelligent.

d. None of the above.