Chapter 8 Quiz

Define Supporting Materials?

• A story, narrative, or anecdote developed at some length to illustrate a point.

• The materials used to support a speaker’s ideas. The three major kinds of supporting materials are examples, statistics, and testimony.

Define extended example?

• The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.

• A story, narrative, or anecdote developed at some length to illustrate a point.

Define Mean?

Define Median?

Define Mode?

• The middle number in a group of numbers arranged from highest to lowest.

• The number that occurs most frequently in a group of numbers.

Define Peer Testimony?

• Testimony from ordinary people with firsthand experience or insight on a topic.

• Testimony that is presented word for word.

Define Paraphrase?

• Testimony that is presented word for word.

• To restate or summarize an author’s ideas in one’s own words.

Define Hypothetical Example?

• An example that describes an imaginary or fictitious situation.

• A specific case referred to in passing to illustrate a point.

Define Testimony?

• To restate or summarize an author’s ideas in one’s own words.

• Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.

Define quoting out of context?

• Testimony that is presented word for word.

• Quoting a statement in such a way as to distort its meaning by removing the statement from the words and phrases surrounding it.