"Bug Heads, Rat Hairs-- Bon Appetit" Knowledge Check

How does Ludwig identify various types of hairs?

• She memorizes how they all look

• She sees how they react to various chemicals

• She has a drawer full of example hairs of various types

• She guesses

What do aphids taste like?

• Sour

• Sweet

• Savory

• Foul

How many pounds of insect/animals products do we eat every year?

• 10 pounds

• 2-3 pounds

• 5 pounds

• 1-2 pounds

What is the purpose of this text?

• Inform

• Persuade

• Entertain

Which rhetorical appeal is most relevant to this text?

• Logos

• Pathos

• Ethos

What rhetorical device is being used in this quote from the text?

"Straight off the bat, I have my foot in my
mouth"

• Idiom
• Simile

• Metaphor

• Parallelism

How can the rhetorical device "idiom" strengthen an author's argument?

• Appeal to more people.
• Calls attention.

• Entertains

• Persuades

What rhetorical device is being used in this quote from the text?

"The magnified ant head is
beautiful, a fragment of translucent amber, like what's left on your tongue in the morning
when you fall asleep with a Ricola in your mouth."

• Imagery
• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Simile

What kind of rhetorical device is used in this quote from the text?

"According to the Ohio State fact sheet,
caterpillars have as much protein as beef, a fraction of the fat, 10 times the iron and
way more riboflavin and thiamine. Plus the ranches take up much less room and can be
staffed by cowboy ants hired away from low-paying aphid-herding jobs"

• Humor
• Simile

• Repetition

• Metaphor

What kind of rhetorical device is used in the following quote from the text?

"Each unit in the vial is as
small as a cake crumb"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Imagery