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"Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?"
Parallelism
Antithesis
Analogy
Rhetorical Question
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Which mode of persuasion appeals to the author's credibility?
Pathos
Ethos
Logos
3
An exaggeration used for emphasis or humor
Metaphor
Understatement
Antithesis
Hyperbole
4
Which of the following words best describes Roach's style?
Formal
Informal
Journalistic
Archaic
5
The people for which a speech or advertisement has been created...
Speaker
Audience
Reader
Author
6
What is objectification, according to Roach?
A technique for keeping control during surgery
A means of seeing humanity in the cadaver
A way to keep from laughing during a procedure
A coping mechanism
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What is the effect of Roach's use of photography preceding each chapter?
She manages to horrify the reader
She seeks to confuse the reader
She manages to pique the reader's interest
8
"A crashed plane will usually tell its own story."
Analogy
Personification
Simile
Hyperbole
9
According to Roach, all of the following terms/phrases have a negative connotation EXCEPT
Cremation
Dissection
Organ Recovery
Tissue Digestion
10
What are cadavers called who are clinically brain dead but blood is still reaching its organs?
Beating-Heart Cadavers
Resurrectionists
Zombies :)
Alive
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A rhetorical question is...
A question that is just a question
A question that has or needs an answer
A question that doesn't have or need an answer
12
Which Chapter focuses the most on ethics?
How to Know if You're Dead
Eat Me
The Cadaver Who Joined the Army
Holy Cadaver
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Who was the "father of anatomy"?
Plato
Pythagorus
Herophilus
Hippocrites
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What is connotation?
Figures of speech in the form of a question posted for rhetorical effect
A list of words, phrases, or clauses
A series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form
The suggested or implied meanings associated with a word
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What is denotation?
Figures of speech that cannot be taken literally
The literal meaning of a word
A series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form
The suggested or implied meanings associated with a word
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Who perfected embalming?
Hannibal Lector
Herophilus
Ted Bundy
Thomas Holmes
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"Incapacitation...became the Holy Grain of ballistics research." (Best answer)
Analogy
Allusion
Imagery
Symbolism
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Mostly likely, why does Roach make use of footnotes?
To give information that is not necessary, but interesting
To provide information for readers to find more information
To give credit to her sources
To provide information necessary to understanding the book
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Makes use of a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas
Symbolism
Antithesis
Understatement
Hyperbole
20
In which chapter does Roach use the reactions of a man named Ron as comic relief?
"Eat Me"
"Crimes of Anatomy"
"Life After Death"
"A Head is a Terrible Thing to Waste"
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Which mode of persuasion appeals to the audience's logic?
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
22
What religious relic does chapter 7 discuss?
Shroud of Turin
The chains of St. Peter
The Tunic of the Blessed Virgin
John the Baptist's Head
23
Which chapter does Roach choose not to employ her characteristic humorous tone?
Out of the Fire Into the Compost Bin
The Cadaver Who Joined the Army
A Head is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Holy Cadaver
24
Throughout the book, science is most in conflict with which of the following?
Medical Field
The Government
The Romantic idea of Death
Religion
25
Using the same general structure for multiple parts of a sentence or for multiple sentences
Repetition
Oxymoron
Parallelism
Rhetorical Question
26
Which school has the only facility that does research on human decay?
Harvard
Vanderbilt University
University of Tennessee
Ole Miss
27
All of the following are conflicts in the book except...
Ethics of ballistic research
Brain Death
Roach's internal conflict in the decomposition field
The morality of using cadavers
28
What is the main purpose of the use of rhetoric?
To entertain the audience with funny comparisons
To inform
To use figurative language
To convince or persuade an audience
29
Which of the following best describes Roach's personality?
Coarse
Honest
Ambitious
Curious
30
Which mode of persuasion appeals to the audience's emotions?
Logos
Ethos
Pathos
31
Which Hogwarts house are you?
Gryffindor
Hufflepuff
Slytherin
Ravenclaw
32
What class does Roach attend in the first chapter?
Face lift refresher
Brain trauma
Wound repair
Blunt force damage
33
How do most individuals who work with cadavers cope?
They objectify the cadaver
They name the cadaver to make it seem more friendly
They think of the cadavers life before death
They perform the dissection as quickly as possible
34
Where does the recipe for a mellified man come from?
The Bible
The Chinese Materia Medica
The Book of the Dead
The Old Testament
35
Which of the following is the MOST unique aspects of Roach's style?
Her use of synechdoche
Her use of analogy
Her tone
Her use of Logos
36
Which of the following methods that Roach uses most keeps the reader interested?
The subject matter of the book
Roach's use of flashback
Roach's consistent switch to first person POV
Roach's use of analogy
37
What fear did people have before modern science clarified brain death?
Being used in ballistics tests
Being used for scientific experimentation
Having limbs and organs removed
Being buried alive
38
Which of the following demonstrates the significance of word choice?
"Cadavers occassionally effect a sort of accidental humanness..."
"Distilled to its essence, controlled and planned, it is now simply science
"I like the term 'decedent'. It's as though the man weren't dead..."
"Hippocrates never dissected a human cadaver. He called [it] unpleasant"
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Tone is...
The intended audience
The way the text makes the audience feel
The main purpose of the text
The author's attitude in the text
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"Off-putting as cadaveric medicine may be...it is a matter of what you're accustomed to."
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
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Why does Roach allow readers to know so much about her reactions as she observes cadavers?
She wants to be relatable to the readers
She wants to persuade the audience to feel what she feels
She is editorializing
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Before cadaver use, how did medical students practice performing surgery?
Their mentors allowed them to practice on them
They would practice on themselves
They paid volunteers to undergo procedures
They performed on the desperate poor
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A reference to some fairly well-known event, place, text, or person.
Allusion
Analogy
Metaphor
Simile
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What is the accepted standard for death in the medical community?
Brain Death
Liver breaks down
Heart stops beating
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Why is Roach's introduction so important to the text?
She establishes a professional tone
She establishes a connection with the audience
She introduces historical information the audience needs
She introduces terminology her readers need to know
