Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:"Trivial pursuit" is the name of a game played by the California Supreme Court, which will seek any nit-picking excuse preventing murderers from receiving justice.

What will be an ideal response?


Rhetorical definition. Notice the switch in this one: Usually the slant is against the word or idea being defined; here the object of the attack occurs in the definition.

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What type of argument purports to show that the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises

What will be an ideal response?

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Identify whether the following claim is a tautology, true by definition, or contingent: Either a Democrat will win the Presidency in the next election or a Republican will

a. Tautology b. Contingent c. Definition

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Who founded the Unification Church?

a. The Bab c. Shoghi Effendi b. Li Hongzhi d. Sun Myung Moon

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The concept of __________ plays a significant role in the moral thinking of Alasdair MacIntyre

a. unity b. transcendence c. justice d. duty

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