This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 112 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 112 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the purpose of antithesis in everyday expressions and proverbs? A) To create confusion and contradiction. B) To encourage people to embrace adversity. C) To discourage people from finding inspiration in adversity. D) To highlight the negative aspects of adversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To encourage people to embrace adversity. 2. What is the first (1) sentence's purpose? A) Purpose/ motive:why the author is writing this . B) Author's intended audience. C) Author's support of thesis/ central idea (discuss rhetorical supports). D) Author name, genre, title, theme/ central idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Author name, genre, title, theme/ central idea. 3. Which Logical Fallacy implies that because something is popular, that makes it right/valid. A) Slippery Slope. B) False Authority. C) Hasty Generalization. D) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bandwagon. 4. What are the primary form(s) of rhetoric used in the speech? A) Pathos and logos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos and logos. 5. Which of the following MUST I include in my essay? A) A thesis that states a strong position. B) Specific Evidence. C) Counterargument. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. 6. In what century did William Wallace start the rebellion against the English king? A) 14th century. B) 11th century. C) 12th century. D) 13th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 13th century. 7. Jane Goodall spent years in the the Gombe forest in Africa living with and becoming an expert on chimpanzees. Her knowledge of chimps surpasses anyone else. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 8. For one thing, lack of exposure to natural light has a significant impact on employees' health. A study conducted in 2013 by Northwestern University in Chicago showed that inadequate natural light could result in eye strain, headaches, and fatigue, as well as interference with the body's circadian rhythms. At this point, the writer is considering adding the following sentence.Workers in offices with windows sleep an average of 46 minutes more per night than workers in offices without windows.Should the writer make this addition here? A) No, because it interrupts the discussion of circadian rhythms. B) Yes, because it supplies quantitative data that will be examined in the rest of the paragraph. C) Yes, because it explains the nature of the bodily functions referred to in the next sentence. D) No, because it does not take into account whether workers were exposed to sunlight outside the office. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, because it interrupts the discussion of circadian rhythms. 9. The veterinarian says that a Chihuahua dog will be the perfect dog for our family. Is this a(an): A) Logical Appeal-Logos. B) Emotional Appeal-Pathos. C) Ethical Appeal-Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional Appeal-Pathos. 10. The purpose of a text is ..... A) The goal of the audience for the text. B) What the speaker believes. C) What the speaker wants the audience to do. D) What the speaker thinks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What the speaker wants the audience to do. 11. Which type of rhetorical appeal is used in the following sentence: "One glass of Florida orange juice contains 75% of your Vitamin C needs." A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 12. In "A Modest Proposal" what does Swift propose doing to solve the poverty in Ireland? A) Sell children into slavery. B) Ship the Catholic children to England. C) Slaughter children of the poor for food. D) Train poor children for the English army. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slaughter children of the poor for food. 13. If I eat this donut today, I'll probably do it again tomorrow and the next day, and then I'll never be able to eat healthy again. A) Slippery Slope. B) Hasty Generalization. C) False Authority. D) Appeal to Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slippery Slope. 14. What rhetorical device is a statement that seems contradictory but, nonetheless, expresses some sort of truth? A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 15. What is the rhetorical device used in the sentence:'I've told you a million times to clean your room!'? A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 16. Which enslaved people were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation? A) Only the enslaved people in the 4 Union slave states. B) All enslaved people in both the North and South. C) Only the enslaved people in the Confederacy (but the Confederacy didn't recognize his authority, so really no slaves). D) Mixed race enslaved people (but only if you could prove you were at least 1/4 white). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Only the enslaved people in the Confederacy (but the Confederacy didn't recognize his authority, so really no slaves). 17. Non-human objects or ideas are given human qualities A) Personification. B) Assonance. C) Juxtaposition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. An oral, public address or talk. A) Sub-claim. B) Speech. C) Style. D) Claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speech. 19. What are the 3 main possible purposes behind a text? A) To Persuade, Inform, and Entertain. B) To Question, Inform, and Persuade. C) To Simplify, Entertain, and spark conversation. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To Persuade, Inform, and Entertain. 20. What is Hortative Sentence? A) Describes language that moves, for meaning or effect, beyond standard or literalmeaning. B) Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action. C) A picture made with words although images may also appeal to touch, hearing, and taste. D) Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action. 21. Which of the following are strong emotions commonly used to appeal to one's pathos? A) Doubt and security. B) Desire and sympathy. C) Faith and apathy. D) Anxiety and sadness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desire and sympathy. 22. Which literary device is present below?Caleigh came by to catch up. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 23. The exigence is directly connected to the context of a rhetorical situation. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. Expressing the same idea in different words to clarify and stress key points. Another way to put it is saying the same thing, but in a different way. A) Parallelism. B) Restatement. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restatement. 25. The following is an example of which rhetorical appeal? "The answer is clear:you must act now." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 26. An author or speaker's tone refers to ..... A) Their main idea. B) Their supporting evidence. C) How the audience is expected to feel about the topic. D) Their feelings or connections to their topic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Their feelings or connections to their topic. 27. A significant phrase at the beginning of a line that is repeated for effect. A) Repetition. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 28. Slow down and take your time. A) Tautology. B) Litotes. C) Pun. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tautology. 29. When an author repeats a word, phrase, or idea again and again. A) Rhetorical question. B) Analogy. C) Repetition. D) Appeals to emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 30. Problem, incident, or occasion that motivates a persuasive message ..... A) Purpose. B) Audience. C) Requirement. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Requirement. 31. It's was so cold outside today, Polar bears needed jackets. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 32. Opinions or beliefs that are taken for granted. A) Repetition. B) Argument. C) Persuasion. D) Assumption. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assumption. 33. The Happy Inside cereal ad uses what kind of rhetorical device? A) Rhetorical question. B) Logical fallacy. C) Sweeping generalization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 34. The committee presented strong arguments against building a new school. A) Forensic. B) Demonstrative (epideictic). C) Deliberative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deliberative. 35. According to "Marketing to Children, " what percentage of children surveyed said that buying certain products makes them feel better about themselves? A) 10%. B) 62%. C) 1%. D) 53%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 53%. 36. An appeal to basic logic or reason; progression of ideas A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 37. When the author picks the perfect moment to introduce a message or product, this is an example of: A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weather. 38. I went to town to buy a gown. / I took the car, and it wasn't far. I had a cat who wore a hat. / He looked cool but felt the fool. I lost my dog in the midst of fog. A) Slant rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 39. Appeal to people's emotions through storytelling. A) Celebrity Endorsement. B) Rhetoric Device. C) Anecdote. D) Stereotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anecdote. 40. Who was St. Augustine? A) A civil rights activist. B) An abolitionist. C) A 4th and 5th century monk. Dr. King references him in "Letter from Birmingham Jail" . D) A segregationist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A 4th and 5th century monk. Dr. King references him in "Letter from Birmingham Jail" . 41. Most people in ancient Greece were disenfranchised. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. This can give the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account. Picks up the pace, creating urgency among other things. Ex. On his return he received medals, honors, treasures, titles, fame. A) Unrelated. B) Apostrophe. C) Syntax. D) Multi-connectors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unrelated. 43. Which tribe was the first tribe to sign the treaty that was presented? A) Choctaws. B) The Creeks. C) Seminoles. D) Chickasaws. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Choctaws. 44. Whom is Douglass addressing? A) White men and women. B) Black men. C) White men. D) Men and women of all races. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) White men. 45. In sum, the Internet does not replace the need for librarians, and librarians are hardly obsolete.Like books, librarians have been around for a long time, but the Internet is extremely useful for many types of research.Which choice most clearly ends the passage with a restatement of the writer's primary claim? A) NO CHANGE. B) Although their roles have diminished significantly, librarians will continue to be employed by public libraries for the foreseeable future. C) The growth of electronic information has led to a diversification of librarians' skills and services, positioning them as savvy resource specialists for patrons. D) However, given their extensive training and skills, librarians who have been displaced by budget cuts have many other possible avenues of employment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The growth of electronic information has led to a diversification of librarians' skills and services, positioning them as savvy resource specialists for patrons. 46. A logical fallacy that assumes once an action begins it will lead, undeterred, to an eventual and inevitable conclusion A) Slippery slope. B) Spatial ordering. C) Spotlight fallacy. D) Stacking the deck. E) Straw man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slippery slope. 47. This is the repetition found at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, lines. A) Folding. B) Antimetabole. C) Anaphora. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 48. A short and amusing or interesting story about an incident or person A) Rhetoric. B) Allusion. C) Anecdote. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anecdote. 49. Define:Amplification A) A rhetorical term for all the ways that an argument, explanation, or description can be expanded and enriched. B) A figure of repetition in which words or phrases or sentences are arranged in order of increasing intensity or importance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rhetorical term for all the ways that an argument, explanation, or description can be expanded and enriched. 50. A classification, characterization, assumption A) Propaganda. B) Stereotype. C) Bias. D) Aphorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stereotype. 51. Everyday speech; slang A) Tout. B) Brawn. C) Delineate. D) Vernacular. E) Nefarious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vernacular. 52. Which section of classical rhetoric is responsible for addressing and refuting opposing points? A) Refutatio. B) Peroratio. C) Narratio. D) Partition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refutatio. 53. Repetition of consonant sounds A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Ethos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 54. Romeo finds Juliet in a drugged state and he thinks she is dead. He kills himself. When Juliet wakes up, she finds Romeo dead and kills herself. A) Appeal to fear. B) Irony. C) Contrast. D) Corrective measures. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 55. You send a text message to your best friend. Your mom reads the message. Your mom is the A) Real audience. B) Intended audience. C) Doesn't matter what my mom is because I am dead once she reads my message. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Real audience. 56. "our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, are constants in our character." Barack Obama, Inauguration Address This quote is an example of A) Ethos and logos. B) Parallelism and ethos. C) Alliteration and ethos. D) Pathos and alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration and ethos. 57. Pick the term that matches the definition:the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea A) Requirement. B) Diction. C) Context. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context. 58. "Ethics" and refers to the trustworthiness of the speaker/writer A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 59. Which logical fallacy occurs when a person rebuts an argument by misconstruing or oversimplifying it. A) Red Herring. B) False Analogy. C) Circular Reasoning. D) Straw Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Straw Man. 60. Art lies in concealing arts A) Epigram. B) Personification. C) Hyperbaton. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epigram. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTheory QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRhetoric Quiz 1Rhetoric Quiz 2Rhetoric Quiz 3Rhetoric Quiz 4Rhetoric Quiz 5Rhetoric Quiz 6Rhetoric Quiz 7Rhetoric Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books