Unit 1 Review McE Version

Question 1

Which is NOT a commonality between Smith and Bradford?

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Diposing of leaders

Question 2

Author: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit full of the fire and wrath...

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Edwards

Question 3

Author: General History of Virginia

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Smith

Question 4

Device: attitude that a literary speaker expresses toward the subject matter and audience

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tone

Question 5

Device: Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person or group, in an unfair way.

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Bias

Question 6

Device: immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification

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Epanorthosis

Question 7

Devices: Are we disposed to be of the number...having eyes see not and having ears hear not?

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Rhetorical question & allusion

Question 8

Device: If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace

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Pathos

Question 9

Device: These are the times that try men's souls.

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aphorism

Question 10

Paine's audience was mostly composed of

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General public

Question 11

Device's purpose: focus attention on the character of an opponent instead of discussing issues.

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ad hominem

Question 12

Device: Deliberately and ironically minimizing the importance of something.

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diminution

Question 13

Author: He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts...and destroyed the lives of our people.

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Jefferson

Question 14

Author: Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning wheel complete/Thy holy word my distaff make for me

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Taylor

Question 15

Author: Squanto...was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation

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Bradford

Question 16

Author: To His Excellency General Washington

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Wheatley

Question 17

Device: I consider it nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery.

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faulty dilemma

Question 18

Device's purpose: to unify the audience in a common expected response

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rhetorical question

Question 19

Device: something unimportant used to stop people from thinking about something important

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red herring

Question 20

Device: Establishing credibility and common values between the speaker and the audience.

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ethos

Question 21

Title: Then mine apparel shall display before ye That I am clothed in holy robes for glory.

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Huswifery

Question 22

Device: placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences

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juxtaposition

Question 23

Author: Speech of Miss Polly Baker

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Franklin

Question 24

Device: a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way

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analogy

Question 25

Deliberately misrepresenting a claim so that it can be easily torn down.

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straw man

Question 26

Device: method of writing in which the main idea is reserved for the very end

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periodic structure

Question 27

Device: It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government

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epanorthosis

Question 28

Device's purpose: maintain the final idea to the end to create suspense and/or agreement.

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periodic syntax

Question 29

Device: We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

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Parallel structure

Question 30

Device: comedy mocking human foibles with the intent to expose faults in order to correct them.

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satire

Question 31

Device: assuming there is a causal relationship because something happened after something.

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post hoc ergo propter hoc

Question 32

Device: He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts...and destroyed the lives of our people.

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parallel structure

Question 33

Device:This rampant hag, Martha Carrier...devil had promised her she should be queen of hell.

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bias

Question 34

Title: nor has any one the least cause of Complaint...unless... they have miss’d a Wedding Fee.

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Speech of Miss Polly Baker

Question 35

Author: ...weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner [but later, he] procured his own liberty

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Smith

Question 36

Title: Whereupon he lost cattle by strange deaths, whereof no natural cause could be given

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Wonders of the Invisible World

Question 37

Author: The Crisis

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Paine

Question 38

Author: If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace

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Paine

Question 39

Author: Our chains are forged... war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat sir, let it come!

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Henry

Question 40

Device: Dominant appeal in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

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appeal to logos

Unit 1 Review McE Version

Questions 40

Unit 1 Review McE Version

Questions 40