Nonfiction Reading Quiz 2

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

An author's diction has little to no effect on the reader.

Inductive Structure is best utilized with material that is

Complex and requires readers to follow the author's train of thought

book = could mean wisdom or knowledge -- This is an example of:

Connotation

Which of the following is the least important part of the occasion

Date

The majority of academic writing students are required to do is

Deductively Structured

book = a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers -- This is an example of:

Denotation

The Tone of a piece of writing refers to its:

Emotion

"Christopher Bergland (b.1966) is a retired ultra-endurance athlete who holds a Guinness World Record for treadmill running (153.76 miles in 24 hours). He completed the Triple Ironman competition - swimming 7 miles, biking 340 miles, and running 79 miles, consecutively - in a record time of 38 hours and 46 minutes. He is the author of the book The Athlete's Way: Sweat and the Biology of Bliss, writes a regular column for Psychology Today, and maintains the sports and health website The Athlete's Way."Which of the following BEST describes the primary appeal in the quote above:

Ethos

"Trust me, I'm a doctor." This is an example of

Ethos

"Back in September 2008, some 3 million people in the United States became college freshmen—the largest cohort ever." Which of the following BEST describes the primary appeal in the quote above:

Logos

"Over 20% of all deaths are from tobacco." This is an example of

Logos

Aristotle's belief that good speakers need to use logical and sound evidence is captured by his concept

Logos

Which of the following means: appeals to logic, reasoning, and evidence?

Logos

The occasion of a piece of writing means something had to have________________ in order for the piece of writing to have been written.

Occurred

Asking your audience to do something out of humanitarian concern for people whose homes were destroyed in an earthquake is an example of _________

Pathos

Which of the following means: appeals to the emotions and passions of the audience?

Pathos

PELIDS stands for

Pathos, Ethos, Logos, Inductive, Deductive Structure

If someone was using SOAPSTone and they wanted to know the reason that something was written, they would be looking for the:

Purpose

Deductive Structure is best utilized with material that is

Straightforward with examples to provide support

Tone analyzes a speaker's:

Style

When answering the question, "What is this piece about?" you are addressing which area of SOAPSTone?

Subject

Which of the following is the BEST definition for the term "Rhetoric"

The art of argument

Which of the following is the least important when considering the speaker of a text?

The author's name

When considering diction, which of the following BEST describes 'the right word?'

The one that best expresses the author's intent

"Ironically, the value of reading and the intellectual faculties that it inculcates appear most clearly as active and engaged literacy declines. There is now a growing awareness of the consequences of nonreading to the workplace. In 2001 the National Association of Manufacturers polled its members on skill deficiencies among employees. Among hourly workers, poor reading skills ranked second, and 38 percent of employers complained that local schools inadequately taught reading comprehension."

The passage above is written deductively.

Read the excerpt below and then respond to the question that follows. "Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other peoples countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns, he washes the blood off his hands and works for the "universal brotherhood of man"—with his mouth."

The passage above is written deductively.

"Likewise our notions of American populism come more from Walt Whitman's poetic vision than from any political tracts. Today when people recall the Depression, the images that most come to mind are of the travail of John Steinbeck's Joad family from The Grapes of Wrath. Without a literary inheritance, the historical past is impoverished."

The passage above is written inductively.

"Recently, the trend-setting Mall of America imposed a curfew on parentless teenagers. More generally, I am told that shopkeepers profess annoyance at the hordes of roving kids outside their windows. But I do not believe this. I do not believe the protestations are real. Or, if they are, the shopkeepers are short-sighted in their irritation. For the malls are the temples of our culture, and "going to the mall" is in truth an initiation rite. The shopkeepers should be glad about this behavior because, as the children gaze through the windows at the well-stocked shelves within, they are learning to want, learning to ache for things, supplied by others and of which there can never be enough."

The passage above is written inductively.

"Some of my experiments were quite curious. In the course of my reading I had come across a case where, many years ago, some hunters on our Great Plains organized a buffalo hunt for the entertainment of an English earl. They had charming sport. They killed seventy-two of those great animals; and ate part of one of them and left the seventy-one to rot. In order to determine the difference between an anaconda and an earl (if any) I caused seven young calves to be turned into the anaconda's cage. The grateful reptile immediately crushed one of them and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied. It showed no further interest in the calves, and no disposition to harm them. I tried this experiment with other anacondas; always with the same result. The fact stood proven that the difference between an earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn't; and that the earl wantonly destroys what he has no use for, but the anaconda doesn't. This seemed to suggest that the anaconda was not descended from the earl. It also seemed to suggest that the earl was descended from the anaconda, and had lost a good deal in the transition."

The passage above is written inductively.

Which of the following BEST describes diction?

The selection of words to cause impact

Which of the following is NOT a purpose for writing

To complete an assignment

An essay that has its thesis at the beginning is ___________________________ written.

deductively

Twain's "The Lowest Animal" is written

inductively