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AP English Language and Composition Unit 2: Reasoning and Structure of Argument — practice questions

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A writer reaches for the nation's founding principle of equality to stir the reader. That reference is an:Read the answer and worked solution →A writer supports a claim with statistics and figures. That kind of evidence is:Read the answer and worked solution →Taking a text apart to see how its persuasion works is a rhetorical:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the appealsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the fallaciesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the rhetoric gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the devicesRead the answer and worked solution →Appeal or fallacyRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the rhetoric wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Rhetoric bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A composition course lists the reasoning strategies students will practise. The number of strategies is:Read the answer and worked solution →A tutor defines logic as the ability to analyse and evaluate persuasive writing for its:Read the answer and worked solution →A writer explains a strange new virus by comparing it to a robbery spree readers already understand. That strategy is:Read the answer and worked solution →Such comparisons are especially useful when the subject a writer must explain happens to be:Read the answer and worked solution →An analogy is really an extended version of two short devices. One is the metaphor and the other is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The other short device compares two things without any signal word at all. That device is the:Read the answer and worked solution →An essay traces the reasons for an event and then the consequences that followed. That strategy is:Read the answer and worked solution →Cause-and-effect writing most often answers which question?Read the answer and worked solution →A writer takes one subject and sets out the categories inside it. That strategy is:Read the answer and worked solution →Division is usually discussed together with one closely related strategy. That partner strategy is:Read the answer and worked solution →An essay lays two subjects side by side and examines both their similarities and their differences. That strategy is:Read the answer and worked solution →A student worries her chosen pair cannot be compared. In fact suitable subjects include objects, people, places and:Read the answer and worked solution →One pattern names a difficulty and then explains a way out of it. That strategy is:Read the answer and worked solution →A definition essay starts with the dictionary meaning of a word. That plain meaning is its:Read the answer and worked solution →Good definition writing goes further, drawing out the emotions and implications a word carries. Those are its:Read the answer and worked solution →Definition writing is most useful for terms that readers often confuse or that carry meanings beyond the dictionary. Its job is to explain and:Read the answer and worked solution →Every point in a paper should tie back to the paper's overarching claim or angle. That claim is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Checking her draft, a student asks whether each of her paragraph openers actually supports that claim. Those openers are the:Read the answer and worked solution →A point in an argument can give background, a reason, an illustration, an explanation, or a response to a:Read the answer and worked solution →

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A writer reaches for the nation's founding principle of equality to stir the reader. That reference is an:

  1. Careful parallelism
  2. Emotional allusion
  3. Quiet understatement
  4. Warm personification
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Correct answer: B. Emotional allusion

1. The reference points outside the text. 2. It works on feeling. 3. It is an emotional allusion. _Source: OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook, Chapter 9, Rhetorical Analysis._

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A writer supports a claim with statistics and figures. That kind of evidence is:

  1. Anecdotal story
  2. Rhetorical query
  3. Numerical data
  4. Emotional appeal
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Correct answer: C. Numerical data

1. Numbers are being offered. 2. Statistics and figures are the form. 3. It is numerical data. _Source: OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook, Chapter 9, Rhetorical Analysis._

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Taking a text apart to see how its persuasion works is a rhetorical:

  1. Fallacy
  2. Metaphor
  3. Narrative
  4. Analysis
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Correct answer: D. Analysis

1. The whole is broken into its parts. 2. Each part is then examined. 3. It is a rhetorical analysis. _Source: OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook, Chapter 9, Rhetorical Analysis._

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