Language and Composition: The Art of Voice (Muller and Whiting)

Chapter 11: Nature and the Environment: How Do We Relate to the Natural World?

Quiz

1
Which rhetorical device does Chief Seattle use in this sentence: "The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on"?
A)simile
B)personification
C)hyperbole
D)allusion
2
With which rhetorical device does Barry Lopez end his essay "Children in the Woods"?
A)repetition
B)understatement
C)metaphor
D)irony
3
Through which appeal does Bill McKibben make his argument in "The Environmental Issue from Hell"?
A)ethos
B)logos
C)pathos
D)logos and pathos
4
Which of these adjectives best describes the tone in Rachel Carson's essay "The Obligation to Endure"?
A)angry
B)sinister
C)weary
D)incredulous
5
Which of these statements is NOT one of the misconceptions Jared Diamond presents in "The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization"?
A)"[W]e must balance the environment against human needs."
B)"[W]e can trust in technology to solve our problems."
C)"[E]nvironmentalists are fear-mongering, overreacting extremists whose predictions of impending disaster have been proved wrong before. . . ."
D)"[C]ountries that are environmentally stressed . . . are at risk of becoming politically stressed, and of seeing their governments collapse."
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