A. Using informal language
B. Demonstrating a mastery of the topic
C. Appealing to the reader’s emotions
D. Using logic and reason
Related Mcqs:
- Ethos is important to establish in which of the following types of arguments ?
A. Emotional arguments
B. Political arguments
C. Deductive arguments
D. Inductive arguments - Aristotle felt that ethos was established by a speaker or writer by convincing the audience that ?
A. the author or speaker was of good mind and character.
B. the author or speaker was emotionally involved in the topic at hand.
C. the author or speaker has provided proper logic and evidence in support of his topic.
D. the author or speaker maintained the appropriate critical distance from the topic. - What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in England during her reign ?
A. The Anglican Church
B. The Roman Catholic Church
C. Calvinism
D. The Lutheran Church - Which of the following offers the best description of the concept of ethos ?
A. Ethos refers to a writer’s presentation of character and image.
B. Ethos refers to a writer’s ability to present evidence.
C. Ethos refers to a writer’s ability to inspire action in readers.
D. Ethos refers to a writer’s ability to inspire emotional responses in readers. - John Lyly’s work significantly shaped the writing of which famous writer ?
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. William Shakespeare - I ask: Is it not the case that everybody that is not white is treated with contempt and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the word of God justifies the white man in so doing. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. This passage exemplifies________________?
A. Jamming
B. Snaring
C. Hortatory sermon
D. Framing - Chaucer and Langland were contemporaries, but there were several differences between their writing styles. Which of the following best describes these differences ?
A. Langland wrote only about aristocratic characters that were similar to Arthurian legends, whereas Chaucer wrote about lower social classes.
B. Chaucer and Langland wrote in different dialects.
C. Chaucer copied French and Italian style, whereas Langland did not.
D. Most of Chaucer’s poetry was for a secular court audience, whereas Langland’s was didactic, teaching a moral lesson. - The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
A. supernatural phenomenon
B. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
C. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
D. all of the above - Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?
A. Fanny Burney
B. Mary Wollstonecraft
C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
D. Jane Austen - World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event ?
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Siegfried Sassoon
C. Wilfred Owen
D. Oscar Wilde
