Global MCQ Practice

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

Rhetoric Quiz 119 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. The absence of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.
2. Including a series of items or ideas used for emphasis and to highlight quantity or variety for appeal
3. Which of the following is the role of the source?
4. What role does the audience play in a rhetorical situation?
5. Using conjunctions to emphasize rhythm, and therefore emphasize a certain point.
6. Apostrophe is .....
7. Repeated use of words or ideas for effect and emphasis
8. Objects are compared to each other-look for 'like' or 'as'
9. What is aposiopesis?
10. Used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic is known as?
11. Which mode of persuasion in rhetoric appeals to emotions and feelings?
12. "I came, I saw, I conquered." ..... Julius Caesar This quote's main rhetorical device in use is
13. ..... is the art of persuasion.
14. What kind of appeal is made in the Lexus ad?
15. Exaggerated statements or claims used for emphasis, often not meant to be taken literally.
16. The correct type of canons of rhetoric is?
17. Humor in the serious action of a tragedy; enriches the quality of the work.
18. How is an author's PURPOSE best described?
19. Imagine Ava, Rohan, and Mason are watching a Ford Mustang commercial. How does the commercial appeal to their emotions and feelings, also known as pathos?
20. What does limitation mean?
21. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!" is .....
22. A figure of speech in which a word or short phrase is omitted, but easily understood from the context; also the marks ( ..... ) that indicate the omission of a word or phrase.
23. What is Swift's claim?
24. Focuses attention on the writer's/speaker's trustworthiness
25. What type of irony is most akin to sarcasm
26. The common sentence structure in English is
27. Describes what the speaker wants the audience to think, feel or do.
28. For the three days in April, people from around the world come to villages in China to celebrate the New Year at the Water Splashing Festival. Women wear yellow and pinkdresses and participate in traditional dancing. Children carve water toys out of bamboo and play with hoses in the streets. Other people race dragon boats across the river and floatpaper boats throughout the village. The festival is a tradition of the Dai community, who live in Southern China.What's the Author's Purpose?
29. Logos definition
30. Ethos, logos, and pathos are all examples of what?
31. The following quote is an example of which technique? "And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to 'feel sorry' for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people's" (Lee 273).
32. Words or phrases that are substituted for other words or phrases being discussed in order to portray it in a more negative light.
33. What is the main characteristic of a predicate adjective?
34. What part of the story comes after the climax and leads to the resolution of the story?
35. Identify the rhetorical device in the sentence: "Time is a thief."
36. Cause and effect (If ....., then ..... ) statements equal
37. "having produced nine million award shows, I know ..... the producer's up there saying, 'Hurry." '
38. What is a false dilemma?
39. Prefering some ideas over others. Example:supporting WGMS over Frank Seale because you attend the school.
40. POSITIVE CONNOTATION:Ms. Baxter has been a(n) ..... employee at this company for three years.
41. Which of the following sentences does not contain an example of synecdoche?
42. Choose the correct term for the following definition:Specific techniques used in writing or speaking to create a literary effect or enhance effectiveness.
43. "Can you imagine that?" and "Do you think money grows on trees?" are both examples of:
44. Many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight.-Dr. Seuss
45. Example: "It's so beautiful I could just die"
46. When a writer/speaker uses evidence such as research data to support their argument this is
47. The humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words
48. "If my age doesn't convince you that I know what I'm talking about, at least consider that I am your grandfather and I only want the best for you."
49. If the speaker/writer is able to inspire emotions such as love, pity, justice, patriotism, hope, jealousy, anger, or fear, they are appealing to .....
50. Arrange the author's claims in the correct logical order, as they appear in her speech. What would be the third one?
51. Identify the rhetorical appeal in this example:As you explained yesterday, only 40 out of 120 seniors turned in their essays on time. Doesn't that give you an indication that the three days you gave us to do the assignment were not enough?
52. The noun or pronoun of a following pronoun refers back to is a
53. What is the second (2) sentence's purpose?
54. Which rhetorical appeal is the following passage?"These are all land-holding farmers. They have known the women for many years and never saw no sign that they had dealings with the devil"
55. What are the 3 rhetorical devices in group #2?
56. By appealing to the audiences emotions, the speaker or writer can make the audience feel sorrow, shame, sympathy, embarrassment, anger, excitement, and/or fear
57. People can hardly tell that Greta is from Sweden.
58. Using emotions and passion to persuade.
59. Does Swift expect his readers to seriously consider his proposal? Why?
60. What type of sentence can use do for philosophical Arguments?
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books