Chapter 2: What is Rhetoric?

Which of the following should you NOT use when writing in formal English?

Full sentences

Educated vocabulary

Contractions

All of the above

Which of the following is acceptable to use when writing in informal English?

The "I" point of view

Slang

Short sentences

All of the above

Which of the following best describes technical writing?

Writing that uses the vocabulary of a specialized field

Writing that uses familiar grammatical patterns

Writing that uses colloquial expressions

All of the above

Which level of English would you use if you were writing a short story?

Informal

Formal

Technical

Which level of English would you use if you were describing how to download iTunes?

Informal

Formal

Technical

Which level of English would you use if you were applying for a job?

Informal

Formal

Technical

Who is the audience of the following passage?: "I've had it with you lazy clowns! This month's profits fell 20% below last year's at this same time. Now, any fool can tell that the problem is your sloppy service to the customers, your excessive breaking of china and glassware, and your horsing around instead of paying attention to such details as keeping the food warm, setting the tables properly, and getting the customer's order straight. So, I'm warning you: either start doing your job right, or you'll find yourselves fired."

A restaurant owner

Customers

Food critics

Waiters/waitresses

What is the purpose of the following passage?: "I've had it with you lazy clowns! This month's profits fell 20% below last year's at this same time. Now, any fool can tell that the problem is your sloppy service to the customers, your excessive breaking of china and glassware, and your horsing around instead of paying attention to such details as keeping the food warm, setting the tables properly, and getting the customer's order straight. So, I'm warning you: either start doing your job right, or you'll find yourselves fired."

To assure the customers their complaints are being taken seriously

To warn the employees about their poor work performance

To persuade the food critics to give the restaurant a second chance

To inform the management about how much money the restaurant has lost

Who is the audience of the following passage?: "The bony remains of Peking Man all came from a single limestone cave at Chou-k'ou-tien. The bones consist of fifteen crania, six facial bones, twelve mandibles, a miscellaneous collection of postcranial bones, and 147 teeth. Studies of the physical characters of these bones by Davidson Black and Franz Weidenreich disclose that Peking Man was still in an early stage of human development, comparable to the Homo erectus of Java."

Davidson Black and Franz Weidenreich

Dentists

Archaeologists

Criminologists

What is the purpose of the following passage?: "The bony remains of Peking Man all came from a single limestone cave at Chou-k'ou-tien. The bones consist of fifteen crania, six facial bones, twelve mandibles, a miscellaneous collection of postcranial bones, and 147 teeth. Studies of the physical characters of these bones by Davidson Black and Franz Weidenreich disclose that Peking Man was still in an early stage of human development, comparable to the Homo erectus of Java."

To inform about the discovery of the remains of Peking Man

To speculate about the cause of death of Peking Man

To criticize the archaeologists who disturbed the remains of Peking Man

To document how many bones were recovered from Peking Man

Chapter 2: What is Rhetoric?

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