This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 65 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 65 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will"This is an example of: A) Anecdote. B) Antithesis. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 2. How you give your speech A) Sophistry. B) Delivery. C) Metaphor. D) Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Delivery. 3. A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them A) Simile. B) Analogy. C) Metaphor. D) Allegory. E) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 4. Du Bois describes his epiphany of realizing that he is different. What event caused this realization? A) Enrolling in a primarily white school. B) Having a girl refuse his card when they were trading. C) Being denied acceptance to college. D) Being excluded from a gift exchange at Christmas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having a girl refuse his card when they were trading. 5. Circular reasoning A) Ploy where the arguer sidesteps questions or conflicts, evading or ignoring the question. B) Examination of the causes and/or effects of a situation or phenomenon. C) Arrangement in the order in which things occur; may move from past to present or in reverse order, from present to past. D) A use of reason in which the premises depends on or is equivalent to the conclusion, a method of false logic by which "this is used to prove that, and that is used to prove this". E) Arrangement of objects according to class. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A use of reason in which the premises depends on or is equivalent to the conclusion, a method of false logic by which "this is used to prove that, and that is used to prove this". 6. Similar structure in words, phrases, or clauses is called ..... A) Antithesis. B) Chiasmus. C) Parallelism. D) Good writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 7. YOUR ANSWER TO #17 A) G. B) J. C) F. D) H. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) G. 8. Michael Jordan and LeBron James are the spokesmen for basketball shoes. A) Juxtaposition. B) Allusion. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethos. 9. I have been married for 58 years and I can tell you that he will not be a good husband to you. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 10. Something intended to divert attention from the real problem or argument at hand; a misleading clue is called- A) Straw Man. B) To Man. C) Red Herring. D) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Herring. 11. TRUE or FALSE? ..... Authors employ different sentence structures to create an emotion in a particular passage. For example, repetition can build up a feeling of anger or passion. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 12. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. A) Simile. B) Anaphora. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 13. Which persuasive appeal uses claims that are backed up with specific evidence, facts, or statistics? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 14. Hundreds of peer-reviewedstudies show that learning toplay a musical instrument hasbenefits for memory later in life. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 15. Statements:All the trucks are flies. Some scooters are flies. Conclusions:All the trucks are scooters. Some scooters are trucks. A) Neither (1) nor (2) follows. B) Only (2) conclusion follows. C) Only (1) conclusion follows. D) Both (1) and (2) follow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neither (1) nor (2) follows. 16. An (a) contains repeated sounds at the beginning of a word. A) A alliteration. B) Juxtaposition. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A alliteration. 17. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants inside a line? A) Assonance. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Consonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 18. Why would a speaker use personalization? A) To create a connection between the audience and topic / speaker. B) To excite the audience by using fancy language. C) To appeal to the audience's emotional reaction. D) To get the audience to stop and think about an answer to his questions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To create a connection between the audience and topic / speaker. 19. The act of trying to convince the audience to act or feel a certain way on a position A) Argument. B) Rhetoric. C) Persuasion. D) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuasion. 20. A direct comparison that states on thing is another. A) Synecdoche. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 21. For what purpose did the author write the narrative? A) To persuade people not to undertake the challenge of swimming in arctic waters. B) To entertain readers with funny stories about her swim. C) To inform readers about the challenge she undertook to become the first person to swim an artic mile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To inform readers about the challenge she undertook to become the first person to swim an artic mile. 22. The "what" of the speech; what the author's main message is to his/her audience A) Tone. B) Main argument. C) Theme. D) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Main argument. 23. What did Cicero mean by "style" ? A) The behavior of the speaker. B) The character of the speaker. C) The language of the speaker. D) The dress of the speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The language of the speaker. 24. The key elements of the rhetorical situation are A) Only 1 & 2 are correct. B) Urgency, agency & context. C) Imperfection, people's attitude & context. D) Requirement, audience & constraint. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Requirement, audience & constraint. 25. Which of the following is an appeal to emotion? A) Pathos. B) Imagery. C) Logos. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 26. What type of writing is PATHOS most effective in? A) Argumentative. B) Persuasive. C) All of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persuasive. 27. The main parts of argumentative writing structure are ..... A) Counterclaim, Rebuttal, Claim. B) Claim, Counterclaim, Rebuttal. C) Theme statement, thesis, analysis. D) Intro, body paragraph, conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Claim, Counterclaim, Rebuttal. 28. A rhetorical device that repeats words or phrases at the beginning of a sentence A) Allusion. B) Anaphora. C) Parallelism. D) Aphorism. E) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 29. Which appeal is being used? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 30. Appealing to one's reasoning A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 31. It is important when you are using rhetoric, you recognize your audience then choose which appeal(s) to use. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 32. The perspective from which a story is told. There are two general divisions, and many subdivisions within those. (1) the first person narrator tells the story with the first person pronoun, "I, " and is a character in the story. 2) the third person narrator relates the events with the third person pronouns, "he, " "she, " and "it." A) Point of view. B) Context. C) Narrator. D) Rhetorical situation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point of view. 33. The attribution of human traits and emotions to inanimate nature. A) Inference. B) Metonymy. C) Pathetic Fallacy. D) Rhetorical Question. E) Tragic Flaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathetic Fallacy. 34. Which appeal proves the speaker can be trusted based on character or qualifications? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 35. Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?A text includes the use of vivid, emotive language, intended to incite intense feeling in a reader regarding the destruction of the Florida panther's natural habitat. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 36. How does the writer/speaker establish credibility and authority? This is a question you would ask to determine ..... A) Logos. B) Credibility. C) Ethos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 37. It's not exactly a walk in the park.She's no spring chicken!It wasn't a terrible trip.These are all examples of a(n) ..... A) Litotes. B) Multi-connectors. C) Colloquialism. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Litotes. 38. What is the participial phrase?Mandy marveled at the yard covered in a thick layer of snow. A) Marveled at the yard. B) Covered in a thick layer of snow. C) Yard. D) Mandy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Covered in a thick layer of snow. 39. The science of the sentence and its parts and function A) Stylistics. B) The grammar. C) Syntax. D) Logic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 40. You should trust Michael Jordan and buy the newest Jordan's because he is the greatest of all time is an appeal to ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 41. An exaggeration made for emphasis is ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 42. Which definition most accurately defines rhetoric A) Speeches meant to brainwash people. B) Writing that is meant to confuse readers. C) Written or spoken words meant to entertain an audience. D) Written or spoken words meant to inform, motivate, or persuade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Written or spoken words meant to inform, motivate, or persuade. 43. 10 Despite these criticisms ..... A) B. B) A. C) D. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) C. 44. Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy A) Millenium. B) Occult. C) Lassitude. D) Permeate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lassitude. 45. Using the same word or phrase over and over again for effect A) Satire. B) Induction. C) Repetition. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 46. Songlike, characterized by emotions, subjectivity, and imagination-often used to describe poetry. A) Jargon. B) Imagery. C) Lyrical. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyrical. 47. Satire is a manner of writing that mixes critical attitude with wit and humor in an effort to improve mankind and human institutions. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 48. Which of the following is a rhetorical strategy? A) Definitions. B) Statistics. C) Repetition. D) Facts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 49. Rhetoric that always advises about things to come A) Judicial. B) Epideictic. C) Deliberative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deliberative. 50. There are dry erase markers for all students. They should not be taken out of the classroom, ..... A) Next. B) Finally. C) However. D) As a result. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) However. 51. "Contrast by a reverse parallelism" is known as ..... A) Chiasmus. B) Dinumeration. C) Macrology. D) Erotesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmus. 52. "Turn the lights down nowNow I take you by the handHand you another drinkDrink it if you can"is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Folding. C) Anaphora. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Folding. 53. I found it very ..... when the police station got robbed last Thursday. A) Ironic. B) Metaphorical. C) Parallel. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ironic. 54. Developing an essay that aims to depict a scene, person, thing or idea. A) Diction. B) Description. C) Figurative language. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Description. 55. Appealing to someone's credibility. A) Weather. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 56. Every day, I look at the weeks deadline and make sure I'm on track to meet them. A) Weeks'. B) NO CHANGE. C) Week's. D) Weeks's. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Week's. 57. If an author writes with a few short sentences and then a long one and then a short one again, what style is he using? A) Word Choice. B) Sentence variation. C) Mood. D) Sentence fluency. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sentence variation. 58. Teacher is to school as doctor is to ..... A) Person. B) Hospital. C) Health. D) Nurse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hospital. 59. An expression of understanding and caring for someone else who is suffering or has problems that have caused unhappiness. A) Sympathy/sympathy (noun). B) Empathy/empathy (noun). C) Logic (noun). D) Ethics/ethics (noun). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sympathy/sympathy (noun). 60. Simplifying an argument to make it easier to attack or refute is called- A) Straw Man. B) False dilemma. C) Hasty Generalization. D) To Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Straw Man. ← 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