Rhetoric Midterm Practice 1

Confused Words

1

If I give students money for beating up George, then that would be a dangerous ...

President or Precedent

Precedent

1

That guy _______________ my interest.

 Piqued or Peaked

Piqued

1

His comedy _________________ed me in a serious way.

effect or affect

affect

1

This drug might have (adverse- averse) effects on me.

adverse

2

This does not mean you are awake or aware of something. This word refers to your inner moral law. (Correctly Spelled.)

Conscience 

Grammar

1

"Actually I really like mathematics."

Actually, 

1

In the course of human events it can become necessary to dissolve political bands.

In the course of human events, 

1

My father only has one flaw rage. 

: rage. 

1

Einstein had an amazing idea The Unified Field Theory.

: The Unified 

2

I must go to my girl's ballet recital the taxes will have to get done tomorrow night.

recital ; the taxes

Biographies

1

Aesop was born into

Slavery

1

Aesop wrote 

Fables

1

Roland Barthes wrote this collection of Essays

Mythologies

1

Barthes invented this word 

Jouissance

2

Barthes wrote about this decade. 

1950's