This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Citation of information from people recognized for their special knowledge of a subject for the purpose of strengthening a speaker or writer's arguments. A) To man. B) To the people. C) Appeal to authority. D) Authority. E) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appeal to authority. 2. Asking questions to your reader that do not need an answer A) Rhetorical questions. B) Direct Address. C) Sweeping Generalization. D) Loaded language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical questions. 3. What is parallelism in writing? A) A type of repetition where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of sentences or paragraphs in a row. B) An appeal to logic. C) A comparison of two unlike things that uses like or as. D) Similar ideas or phrases arranged to balance each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Similar ideas or phrases arranged to balance each other. 4. "Implied though not plainly expressed" is the definition of ..... A) Figurative Language. B) Loaded Language. C) Explicit Language. D) Implicit Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Implicit Language. 5. Which part of the sentence is an allusion:Something weird is going on ..... my spidey sense is tingling. A) Is going on. B) Weird. C) Something weird. D) Spidey sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spidey sense. 6. The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression; the feelings or images associated with particular words A) Connotation. B) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 7. What does the speaker do in SOAPSTone? A) The speaker listens to the audience. B) The speaker delivers the message or speech. C) The speaker writes a letter. D) The speaker analyzes the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker delivers the message or speech. 8. The knowledge of an expert is referred to by the writer A) Expert opinion. B) Metaphor and simile. C) Over-exaggeration. D) Emotional language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expert opinion. 9. Oh, please. What would you know about labor laws? You don't even have a job. A) To Man. B) Hasty Generalization. C) Sentimental Appeal. D) Scare Tactic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To Man. 10. When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them. A) Logical Fallacy. B) Inference. C) Invective. D) False Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) False Analogy. 11. What does appeal to fear mean? A) When fear, not evidence or reason, is being used as the primary motivator to get others to accept an idea, proposition, or conclusion. B) A reference to a well-known story, event, person, or object to make someone fear a situation. C) Showing how an opposing viewpoint can be feared and proving those reasons. D) A reference to a horror movie or real-life horrific event to show disaster and fear in order to persuade against that fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When fear, not evidence or reason, is being used as the primary motivator to get others to accept an idea, proposition, or conclusion. 12. Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison and contrast * A) Juxtaposition. B) Dilemma. C) Logos. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 13. What is the purpose of Loaded Words? A) Used to stir emotions of either anger or passion of the listener/reader. B) To signal expertise and knowledge and therefore establish credibility. C) To reinforce certain words and phrases, building emphasis with each one. D) Prompts thought and leads an audience to certain conclusions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Used to stir emotions of either anger or passion of the listener/reader. 14. Define Circumlocution A) To write around a subject; to write evasively in an effort to avoid. B) That which comes before. C) List. D) An exaggeration or overstatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To write around a subject; to write evasively in an effort to avoid. 15. A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. A compound sentence = A) Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses. B) Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. C) Is also called parallelism. D) Is also called a loose sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses. 17. A declarative sentence ends with A) A comma,. B) A question mark?. C) A period. D) An exclamation point!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A period. 18. "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit." (Star Trek:The Next Generation) A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Zeugma. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zeugma. 19. What device is best represented here? "All you are is mean. And a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life. And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean" A) Anaphora. B) Multi-connector. C) Epistrophe. D) Unconnected. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multi-connector. 20. True or False:The word "anaphoura" is spelled correctly in this sentence. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 21. Rosie had the best time making her valentine cards for her classmates. She used red and white paper, heart stickers, markers and anything else she could find. It was great. Her friends are planning a valentine party on Feb. 14th at school. The one she made for her best friend is funny. Funny valentines are nice to get. A) To Inform. B) To Entertain. C) To Persuade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To Entertain. 22. ..... refers to any attempt to appeal to the intellect ..... academic arguments rely more on ..... A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 23. A rhetoric Ethical Appeal is also known as? A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 24. What is the purpose of a participle? A) Describe a location. B) Add detail to a noun. C) Add detail to a verb. D) Modify a verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Add detail to a noun. 25. Ancient Greece was a true democracy. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 26. Direct comparison between two things making them equal; something is something else A) Oxymoron. B) Extended metaphor. C) Paradox. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 27. Multiple syllables used in the sentence A) Polysyllabic. B) Syllogism. C) Monosyllabic. D) Polytheism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polysyllabic. 28. UNIVERSAL AUDIENCE A) Persuasive appeal from reputation, social position or personal character (your own or someone else's). B) Comparison, referring to one thing as another. C) An imaginary audience consisting of all humanity. D) Persuasive appeal from facts, logic or reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An imaginary audience consisting of all humanity. 29. Which rhetorical appeal aims to evoke emotions in the audience? A) Bathos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 30. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong A) Euphemism. B) Simile. C) Parallelism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 31. What role does ETHOS play in a persuasive argument? A) It establishes the credibility of the speaker. B) It establishes an emotional response from the audience. C) It establishes a logical connection between the argument and the audience. D) It creates repetition in sentence structure to create rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It establishes the credibility of the speaker. 32. Substituting a person's actual position with a misrepresented (and usually weaker) version of their argument. A) Appeal to nature. B) It does not follow. C) Guilt by association. D) Straw man argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Straw man argument. 33. MLK used ..... when he repeatedly started phrases with "as long as ..... " A) Allusion. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Parallel Structure. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallel Structure. 34. To inform / to persuade A) Audience. B) Requirement. C) Purpose. D) Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purpose. 35. Which appeal should a speaker focus when creating an argument? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 36. The "L" of our DIDLS acronym A) Language. B) Linguistics. C) Linguini. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language. 37. Third person omniscient point of view presents A) The thoughts and feelings of all characters. B) The thoughts and feelings of one character. C) The behaviors of one character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The thoughts and feelings of all characters. 38. What are the components of a rhetorical situation? A) Exigence, Purpose, Audience, Context, Writer, Message. B) Claim, Evidence, Commentary. C) Ethos, Pathos, Logos. D) Speaker, Purpose, Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exigence, Purpose, Audience, Context, Writer, Message. 39. Intentionally using a word or phrase for effect, two or more times in a speech or written work. For repetition to be noticeable, the words or phrases should be repeated within close proximity of each other. A) Residence. B) Metaphor. C) Anaphora. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 40. 45% of patients surveyed said that they were dissatisfied with their experience at the hospital. This shows how serious the problems in our medical system are. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 41. Which of the following is the best definition for the word "infer" ? A) To suggest or hintsomething, without stating it directly. B) To draw a conclusion, putting two and two together. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To draw a conclusion, putting two and two together. 42. When two words are put together that contradict each other-opposites Jumbo Shrimp A) Shape. B) Pun. C) Oxymoron. D) Proverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 43. Offering question not intended to be answered (because the answer is obvious) A) Skesis of names. B) Rhetorical question. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 44. The reason an author writes a particular work is known as their ..... A) Aspiration. B) Purpose. C) Ethos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Purpose. 45. The appeal to emotion is known as A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Telos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 46. Sentence length, type, and structure. A) Syntax. B) Oxymoron. C) Unrelated. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 47. At 1 p.m. Charlotte was eating lunch ....., Joseph was just waking up after sleeping in. A) Then. B) Simultaneously. C) Consequently. D) So. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simultaneously. 48. "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."What rhetorical devise is used? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 49. Audience appeals A) A type of figurative language in which two unlike things are compared using like, as, than, or resembles. B) Methods of persuading an audience through emotion, logic, or ethics. C) A pattern in writing in which words and phrases are similar in structure, one echoing another. D) A nonliteral use of language to suggest a specific feeling or meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Methods of persuading an audience through emotion, logic, or ethics. 50. According to Aristotle, there are 3 characteristics that distinguish humans from animals A) Logos / Expression of emotions / power of speech. B) Logos / Sense of sight / Manifestation of emotions. C) Sense of sight / Expression of emotions / power of speech. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos / Expression of emotions / power of speech. 51. Which famous person from history did Aristotle tutor? A) William Shakespeare. B) Joan of Arc. C) Julius Caesar. D) Alexander the Great. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alexander the Great. 52. A brief indirect reference to a person, event, object, time period, literary work, etc. (example:Don't be such a Scrooge! The good Samaritan appeared on the scene. His smile is like kryptonite to me.) A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 53. "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" A) Anaphora. B) Hypophora. C) Rhetorical question. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical question. 54. Last week I lost my wallet, my car was stolen, and my girlfriend broke up with me.What appeal is this person using? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 55. Questions that do not require an answer A) Rhetorical question. B) Rhetorical situation. C) Rhetorical modes. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 56. Select the sentence that uses commas correctly. A) I did believe it or not, get a 36 on the ACT. B) I did, believe it or not, get a 36 on the ACT. C) I did believe it, or not, get a 36 on the ACT. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I did, believe it or not, get a 36 on the ACT. 57. Metaphors appeal to our emotions but they also help aid understanding, so they appeal to ..... ? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 58. Justin's mom gets his phone bill and he has gone over the limit. He begins talking to her about how hard his math class is and how well he did on a test today. A) False analogy. B) Red herring. C) False dichotomy. D) Hasty generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red herring. 59. A word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity A) Repetition. B) Aphorism. C) Hyperbole. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 60. The presentation of only one side of an issue or viewpoint, used to subjectively influence an audience. A) Bias. B) Credibility. C) Generalization. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bias. ← 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