This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 13 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Showing you statistics A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 2. An appeal used to persuade someone by reason A) Argument. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 3. What is the purpose of parallelism in writing or speaking? A) To engage the reader or listener. B) To provide a clear structure. C) To introduce new ideas. D) To create emphasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To engage the reader or listener. 4. What is the definition of a "hook" sentence? A) A sentence that draws the reader in and gets them interested about the essay. B) A grand or big statement that a lot of people find relatable. C) Additional information about the essay topic that explains the history, important people, dates, or what the topic is. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A sentence that draws the reader in and gets them interested about the essay. 5. A lack of conjunctions between words, phrases, sentences A) Analogy. B) Anaphora. C) Unrelated. D) Folding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unrelated. 6. A statement that appears to be self contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. ie. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Paradox. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 7. Ethos is most associated with A) Passion. B) Logic. C) Love. D) Trust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trust. 8. A common expression that does not make sense if you take it literally A) Repetition. B) Idiom. C) Parallelism. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 9. Declaration of Independence:Which words emphasize how badly the British government was treating the colonies? A) "the course of human events". B) "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". C) "light and transient causes". D) "repeated injuries and usurpations". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "repeated injuries and usurpations". 10. ..... means:The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of back to back phrases A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Antithesis. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 11. A reference to an object or person by naming only part of the object or person."She stood in the driveway watching as the beards moved her furniture into her new house." A) Silence. B) Metonymy. C) Conduplication. D) Aporia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 12. True or False:Rhetoric is the ancient art of using language to persuade. If you use it well, your audience will easily understand what you're saying, and will be influenced by your message. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 13. "You will never be satisfied in life if you don't seize this opportunity. Do you want to live the rest of your years yearning to know what would have happened if you just jumped when you had the chance?" A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 14. What is the purpose of repetition and parallelism? A) To show the similarities between two things. B) To create an image. C) To emphasize a point. D) To give an example. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To emphasize a point. 15. Which rhetorical device appeals to credibility? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 16. Repeat a word or phrase for clarity or emphasis A) Repetition. B) Parallelism. C) Restatement. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 17. The process of freeing the slaves in increments as opposed to all at once A) Enfranchisement. B) Gradual Abolition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gradual Abolition. 18. PART B:Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A? A) "The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all."(Paragraph 2). B) "One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it." (Paragraph 4). C) "Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease." (Paragraph 4). D) "having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that Hegives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom theoffence came." (Paragraph 6). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that Hegives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom theoffence came." (Paragraph 6). 19. Commentary should always be longer than your evidence. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. A stereotype in literature. A) Allegory. B) Archetype. C) Anachronism. D) Catharsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Archetype. 21. The following is an example of which rhetorical device? Sometimes paddling upstream is smoother than flowing with the current. A) Paradox. B) Irony. C) Pun. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 22. Argumentative Terms:The writer's position on an issue A) With rebuttal. B) Thesis. C) Claim. D) Counterclaim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claim. 23. Ideas and feelings associated with a word (not its dictionary definition) A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Connotation. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 24. ..... is much more important in argumentative writing than it is in persuasive writing. A) Legos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logos. 25. A more agreeable/less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant concept A) Understatement. B) Euphemism. C) Emotional appeal. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 26. Short personal stories used to connect with the audience and add evidence or credibility to an argument. A) Alliteration. B) Evidence. C) Bias. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdote. 27. What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:"This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens ..... " A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Apposition. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apposition. 28. An indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar A) Oxymoron. B) Idiom. C) Allusion. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 29. "For man holds in his hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life" A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 30. Fortnite is the best video game. A) Fact. B) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opinion. 31. What is when facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work called? A) Paradox. B) Situational irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 32. Who is the audience of the speech? A) Black people only. B) Republicans . C) Grieving Americans. D) White people only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grieving Americans. 33. "My backpack weighs a ton!" is an example of A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 34. A speaker's view of the situation or events of a story/speech A) Optical illusion. B) Perspective. C) Popular view. D) Logical reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perspective. 35. Which appeal is made to logic? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 36. Reasons you give to support your claim; includes facts, statistics, examples, personal anecdotes, expert opinions, etc. A) Counterargument. B) Claim. C) Counterclaim. D) Argument. E) Supporting evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Supporting evidence. 37. An extended comparison often used to aide in understanding. A) Anecdote. B) Analogy. C) Simile. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 38. Sarcasm is when a writer ..... A) Includes many conjunctions to slow down the pace of the reader. B) Makes a situation seem less important than it really is. C) Repeats the same grammatical structure in words, phrases, or clauses. D) Makes a mocking statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Makes a mocking statement. 39. The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage A) Prose. B) Ambiguity. C) Tone. D) Style. E) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ambiguity. 40. Her curls Melissa shook. A) Hypallage. B) Hyperbole. C) Hyperbaton. D) Twenty days. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbaton. 41. Spaces include both the form of writing as well as the physical/virtual space we write in. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 42. A writer's "rhetorical choices" can include ..... OR ..... A) Inform or persuade. B) Speech or letter. C) Strategies or devices. D) Persuasive appeals or rhetorical situation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strategies or devices. 43. Which component of rhetoric appeals to emotions and feelings? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Weather. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 44. What is the definition of connotative? A) Using language effectively and persuasively in writing or speaking. B) Literal meaning of a word or phrase (the dictionary definition). C) Questions that do not require an answer. D) The emotions or feelings that a word or phrase creates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The emotions or feelings that a word or phrase creates. 45. What do you call the different ways you can spread a message? A) Media. B) Aristotle. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Media. 46. Words or statements that are fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated A) Implicit. B) Explicit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Explicit. 47. Repetition at the end of successive clauses A) Trope. B) Epistrophe. C) Anaphora. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 48. The following is an example of, " "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation" A) Analogy. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 49. Why does Skloot repeatedly mention personal details like red toenail polish and family history? A) To remind the reader that Henrietta was a real person. B) To explain how her grooming habits affected her health. C) To include something other than the scientific aspects of the story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To remind the reader that Henrietta was a real person. 50. A purpose that wants the reader to simply know more about a subject A) To persuade. B) To inform. C) To entertain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To inform. 51. Determine the mode of rhetoric:"Don't you want to help save our planet?" A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 52. Get Colgate for brighter teeth. Colgate is the best toothpaste for your teeth. Colgate gives you a brighter smile. Choose Colgate today! What type of technique is used? A) Testimonial. B) Snob Appeal. C) Bandwagon. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 53. This is the person or group who creates a text. A) Rhetorical appeals. B) Subject. C) Audience. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 54. The data is perfectly clear:this investment has consistently turned a profit year-over year, even in spite of market declines in other areas. A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 55. Calling something to mind without mentioning it directly A) Anecdote. B) Allusion. C) Tone. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 56. An appeal that evokes a feeling-based response in the audience. A) Context. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 57. Addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail. A) Antithesis. B) Enumeratio. C) Imagery. D) Amplification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amplification. 58. Persuading by relying on the character of the author A) Ethical appeal. B) Deduction. C) Emotional appeal. D) Logical appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethical appeal. 59. What is the tone of this statement?I know it's been hard. I appreciate all you are going through right now. If you will just put the receipts on the counter, I will take care of the paperwork for you. A) Sympathetic. B) Sarcastic. C) Cruel. D) Threatening. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic. 60. The need or what motivates the message / argument / discourse A) Requirement. B) Ethos, pathos, and logos. C) Rhetoric. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Requirement. ← 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