A politician who uses an event like a mass shooting to mourn the victims and celebrate their lives while avoiding advancing any changes to gun laws is using what kind of rhetoric?

a. deliberative
b. public
c. forensic
d. epideictic


Ans: d. epideictic

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a. moral b. absolute c. developmental d. relative

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Long Island's Newsday is the twelfth-largest paper in the country with a combined print and online circulation of over 700,000. It is classified as a ________ newspaper.

A. suburban daily B. large metropolitan daily C. zoned edition D. national daily 

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"I have to tell you about a funny thing that happened the other day" would most likely be said during the _____ step of the process of conversation

A) business B) feedforward C) feedback D) closing

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Good listeners are born, not made

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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