Global MCQ Practice

🌐 Total MCQ
🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books

Rhetoric Quiz 105 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. Which figurative language is the following an example of? "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred" (King).
2. The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea is .....
3. "98% of climate scientists believe climate change is real."
4. Identify the dominant appeal: "If you're still unsure, please consider that my advanced degree and awards for my work speak for themselves."
5. What rhetorical device is often used in conjunction with rhetorical questions, hyperbole, and irony?
6. Showing a predisposition to one side of a topic
7. The perspective from which the story ispresented; or from whose angle the story isbeing told.
8. Trump uses formal, complex, academic language when he speaks.
9. This rhetorical technique is telling a story to provide personal evidence and to support an argument.
10. What is the main characteristic of pathos?
11. Which rhetorical situation do the following questions address?How will your audience use what you tell them?What are your own goals for the writing task?
12. "Have you got a brook in your little heart, where bashful flowers blow, and blushing birds go down to drink, and shadows tremble so?"
13. Story:All bicycle riders, young and old, should have the right equipment to practice bicycle safety. Bike parts such as tires and brakes must be in proper working condition.Each bicycle should have reflectors so that the rider can be seen from the front, back, and sides. A bell or horn can help prevent accidents, too. Bicycle riders should always wear a helmet to protect their head from an accident. What is the main idea?
14. Persuasive Techniques Expert Opinion:
15. Repetition .....
16. The structure for all arguments is claim, reason, warrant.
17. This restates the argument rather than actually proving it
18. What is the Latin name for division in the six parts of classical rhetoric?
19. This is an appeal to authority and credibility.
20. What is the correct pattern of Passive Voice?
21. This refers to the use of words that are similar in sound, structure, or meaning. For example, "To err is human; to forgive is divine" (Alexander Pope).
22. The presentation of something as being smaller or less important than it actually is
23. Which rhetorical appeal appeals to the audience's logic and reasoning?
24. Intend for the word or words to have a meaning that is different than the literal meaning
25. Charts and Graphs
26. What is the audience?
27. In rhetorical analysis, your job is to evaluate how authors use language to create arguments and accomplish a purpose, not necessarily to evaluate the merits of their arguments.
28. Pick the term that matches the definition:the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing
29. In the line below, what kind of technique is the author using to create his/her style? "So far, so good. On duty at 10 o'clock ..... a few words about the ice problem with Lookout Reginald Lee, who shared the same watch ..... a few more words about the cold ..... but mostly just silence, as the two stared into the darkness."
30. In an opinion essay, the argument that the writer acknowledges as the opposition.
31. What figurative language can be identified in the following quote to help Hamilton convince his audience of his worthiness. "I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal Tryin' to reach my goal, my power of speech:unimpeachable"
32. What literary device is MOST used throughout the speech?
33. When an inference or conclusion is drawn on the basis of insufficient evidence
34. Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (FANBOYS:for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) not normally found in successive words, phrases or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses.
35. Which of following is imagery
36. Choose A, B, C, D
37. What is the effect of Lincoln's allusion to the Declaration of Independence in the opening paragraph of the Gettysburg Address?
38. I am an expert in only one ..... what it is like to be a young man, husband, and father with Parkinson's disease
39. Donate today and save the whales from extinction. Only you can help is an appeal to .....
40. An article that tells you that 62% of students prefer going to PE at the end of the day is an example of:
41. What is the reputation of rhetoric in modern times?
42. An appeal to ethics, and is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader.
43. Which rhetorical appeal is being used in the statement 'Wrapping your baby in a Huggies diaper is like wrapping them in a warm hug.'?
44. What is an assertion?
45. What device is being used when the speaker tells a short personal story?
46. "Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."
47. What is the definition of context in relation to rhetoric?
48. Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something. Ex. I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips. "Who's gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It's chocolate; it's peppermint; it's delicious ..... It's very refreshing!" -Kramer (Seinfeld).
49. A question that is asked, but the audience isn't intended to answer it is called
50. "How can you argue your case for vegetarianism when you are enjoying your steak?"
51. If you were writing a story about a squirrel crossing the road you would use a
52. The night falls like a layer of black velvet on a sky stained by the setting sun. A shower of silver dust breaks through the layer of ink and somewhere below someone makes a wish. Have you ever heard of people wishing for a shooting star or wondered what the catalyst for this fascinating spectacle is? In reality, a shooting star is not really a shooting star. A shooting star is technically a meteor shower. Which of the following best summarizes the author's attitude toward the night sky?
53. Which rhetorical appeal wants to get an emotional reaction out of the audience?
54. Which rhetorical choice delivers a very descriptive language that paints an image in your head
55. I remember learning how to swim. I took lessons at the community pool in the town where I grew up. One of the lifeguards, Ms. Jen, really helped me get comfortable with holding my breath. She'd play this bobbing game with us that had a fun song to go along with it. Whenever I get in a pool, I still sing that song in my head.This is an example of what device?
56. What is pathos in rhetoric?
57. Conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose
58. The sound that the thing being described makes
59. Using abusive names to attack the opposing side ..... Example:calling your opponent a "nasty woman"
60. "Order now, before time runs out!" is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books