This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 124 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 124 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Audience and ethical appeals are in the same part of the rhetorical triangle A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 2. Anecdotes are ..... A) Definitions. B) Stories. C) Synonyms. D) Examples. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stories. 3. What is the definition of a red herring in an argument? A) An attempt to confuse and distract. B) A responsibility to refute a weak argument. C) The assumption that two things must be alike in another way. D) Talking in circles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An attempt to confuse and distract. 4. Which of the following is an appeal made to an audience's emotions? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Rhetoric. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 5. The repetition of word or phrase at End of sentences or paragraphs. A) Apostrophe. B) Ethos. C) Alliterative Couplet. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epistrophe. 6. A person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure A) Allusion. B) Analysis. C) Pathos. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 7. Providing stories about love of a family pet, the joys of friendship, or the state of under-privileged children are examples that can add to your speech's ..... A) Phonos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 8. The apartment was on the top floor-a small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath.Is an example of what? A) Chiasmus. B) Anaphora. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 9. Emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work A) Atmosphere. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atmosphere. 10. What is an appeal to ethos? A) Appealing to the readers logic. B) Appealing to the readers emotions. C) Appealing to the speakers trustworthiness. D) Appealing to the best evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appealing to the speakers trustworthiness. 11. An implied or direct reference to a common piece of knowledge between speaker and audience A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Oxymoron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. Logos appeals to the audience's sense of logic, asking them to believe because: A) They don't have reasoning of their own. B) The argument makes sense with evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The argument makes sense with evidence. 13. What must a rhetorical analyst (you the student) consistently do with a text? A) Search for use of rhetorical devices and strategies. B) Search for only the meaning of the text. C) Persuade the reader to think or do something. D) Ignore the text until it goes away. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Search for use of rhetorical devices and strategies. 14. According to Aristotle's division, PHYSICS is: A) Theoretical science. B) Poetic science. C) Practical science. D) Life science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theoretical science. 15. Let the hate roll off your back like water from a spring rain. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 16. A person's account of an event, using someone, usually a celebrity to convince you of something A) Pathos. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Testimonial. D) Patriotism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Testimonial. 17. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a group of words? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 18. 18 Almost every diving center ..... A) B. B) D. C) A. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) C. 19. My sister and I had a friendly fight over the lipstick. A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 20. What are the three appeals to use in a precis? A) Humor, Laughter, Sarcasm. B) Ethos, Logos, Pathos. C) Logic, Emotion, Credential. D) Credo, Terminus, Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos, Logos, Pathos. 21. Which one of the following appeals are used to make people feel? A) Logical reasoning. B) Emotional reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional reasoning. 22. The continuation from one line of a poem to the next with no pause A) Antithesis. B) Enjambment. C) Slant rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 23. What does the occasion mean in SOAPSTone? A) The intended audience of the text. B) The author's purpose for writing the text. C) The main idea of the text. D) Time and place the text was written or spoken. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time and place the text was written or spoken. 24. A. Opposition in a sentence, or contrast of ideas in a parallel construction A) Antithesis. B) Parallelism. C) Oxymoron. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 25. Scrooge's clerk; kind, mild, & very poor man; has a large family A) Jacob Marley. B) Fan. C) Fred. D) Bob Cratchit. E) Mr.Fezziwig. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bob Cratchit. 26. Goes beyond the limits of A) Accomplices. B) Transcends. C) Neutrality. D) Humility. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcends. 27. Think about the text from What is Rhetoric? by Gideon Burton and "Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage" by Carrie Chapman Catt to answer the questions.What is Rhetoric? by Gideon Burton and "Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage" by Carrie Chapman CattBehold our Uncle Sam floating the banner with one hand, "Taxation without representation is tyranny, " and with the other seizing billions of dollars paid in taxes paid by women to whom he refuses "representation." Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one and the newly made immigrant citizen to "a voice in their own government" while he denies that fundamental right to thousands of public school teachers from whom many of these men learn all they know of citizenship and patriotism. "Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage" by Carrie Chapman CattPart BWhich quotation from the excerpt best supports the answer to Part A? A) "Behold him again, welcoming the boys of twenty-one ". B) "Behold our Uncle Sam floating the banner ". C) "Taxation without representation is tyranny ". D) "He denies that fundamental right to thousands ". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Taxation without representation is tyranny ". 28. 12% of students are tardy to 1st hour. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 29. "You've been given a gift" A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Direct address. D) Folding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct address. 30. "Researches at Yale University suggest learning how to play an instrument benefits the brain." Which of these 3 areas does this statement most closely exemplify? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 31. What is the claim in the Serena Williams article? https://www.teenvogue.com/story/serena-williams-calling-out-racism-in-health-care A) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black women are three to four times more likely to die during childbirth than are white women. B) Serena Williams is urging black women to "get feisty" to protect themselves from any ills they may face in the American health care system. C) "Most physicians are not explicitly racist and are committed to treating all patients equally. However, they operate in an inherently racist system, " the article says. D) Her account prompted other black women to share stories of being dismissed and neglected by doctors, though she said her doctors was great. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Serena Williams is urging black women to "get feisty" to protect themselves from any ills they may face in the American health care system. 32. When an author either claims to be an expert or relies on information provided by experts. A) Appeals to authority. B) Appeals to emotion. C) Repetition. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeals to authority. 33. We are only talking about rhetoric in the age A) Ancient Egypt. B) Ancient Greece. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ancient Greece. 34. The Rhetoric Appeal that deals with emotion is called? A) Ethos. B) Repetition. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 35. The art of observing in any given case the "available means of persuasion." A) Rhetoric. B) Anistrophe. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric. 36. The main argument a writer is making (what are they trying to change?) A) Opposing Claim. B) Rhetorical Device. C) Target Audience. D) Claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Claim. 37. Appeal to ..... asks the audience to follow a line of reasoning. Verifiable evidence can be used to support these appeals A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Symos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 38. Main Idea:Chocolate is a very popular gift to give during the holidays. What supporting detail would go with this main idea? A) On Valentine's Day, heart shaped boxes filled with chocolate are given to loved ones. B) Hot chocolate is made with warm chocolate and milk. C) Most of the world's cocoa beans come from Africa. D) Chocolate is a popular flavor of ice cream. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On Valentine's Day, heart shaped boxes filled with chocolate are given to loved ones. 39. The first sentence of the precis' establishes the A) Outline of your topic. B) Who, where, when and what. C) Author's argument. D) Place the article was written. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Who, where, when and what. 40. A conceptual association should always be A) Concrete. B) Abstract. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abstract. 41. What is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning? A) Hyperbole. B) Rhetorical question. C) Allusion. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 42. Toys of all kinds thrown everywhere.Sentence or Fragment? A) Fragment. B) Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fragment. 43. In the University of Notre Dame, Touchdown Jesus is a term commonly used in football games. A) N/A. B) True. C) False. D) Nonexistent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 44. A question asked for effect, not requiring an answer A) Metaphorical question. B) Analogical question. C) Hyperbolic question. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 45. Intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication A) Digression. B) Dogmatism. C) Damning with faint praise. D) Deductive reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Damning with faint praise. 46. Either/or fallacy A) Asking a question of the audience with the intention to provoke thought. B) Presenting a situation as though there are only two possible outcomes, when in reality there are other possibilities, too. C) Lying about the cause of the given situation. D) Believing that something must be true because either one of your two friends believes it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Presenting a situation as though there are only two possible outcomes, when in reality there are other possibilities, too. 47. A genre of literature in whichvices, abuses, and shortcomings areheld up to ridicule (attack), ideally withthe intent of shaming individuals, orsociety itself, into some type ofimprovement. A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Satire. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. 48. An appeal to timeliness A) Logos. B) Weather. C) Ethos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weather. 49. Parallelism that uses two opposite ideas to create contrast is called ..... A) Receipt. B) Antithesis. C) Parallelism. D) Aporia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 50. Which would be the correct rebuttal here?Claim:Internet should be banned from all schoolsCounterclaim:but the internet opens up wider possibilities for learning. A) Some may argue that internet should not be allowed in school because there are inappropriate websites, however, the internet should be allowed because it opens up wider possibilities to learning. B) Some may argue that the internet opens up wider possibilities to learning, however, internet should be banned from all schools because there are inappropriate websites. C) "Children's brains deteriorate when exposed to too much online activity". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Some may argue that the internet opens up wider possibilities to learning, however, internet should be banned from all schools because there are inappropriate websites. 51. A summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality. A) Interloper. B) Occult. C) Epitome. D) Lassitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epitome. 52. How can rhetorical questions be used? A) To manipulate the audience's emotions. B) To entertain the audience. C) To confuse the audience. D) To guide the audience's thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To manipulate the audience's emotions. 53. What is the purpose of allusions in rhetoric? A) To reference historical or cultural elements. B) To use figurative language. C) To appeal to emotions. D) To establish credibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To reference historical or cultural elements. 54. The boys wanted pizza, ..... they looked up the number for Marcos. A) However. B) So. C) Consequently. D) In addition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) So. 55. Which of these is an ethical or moral argument? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Debate. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 56. Logical Fallacies:40 million people can't be wrong! Buy the new iPhone XIV today! A) Bandwagon. B) False dilemma. C) Incorrect premise. D) Straw man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bandwagon. 57. Pathos is an appeal to the audience's A) Respect and trust. B) Emotion. C) Logical mind. D) Reasonable heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotion. 58. Ethos appeals to the audience by asking them to: A) Trust the speaker. B) Disagree with the speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trust the speaker. 59. The call to ethics is also called A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 60. Identify the appeal: "If my years as a Marine taught me anything, it's that caution is the best policy in this sort of situation." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. ← 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