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Rhetoric Quiz 80 (60 MCQs)

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1. In a piece of writing, who controls the TONE?
2. The birds chirped this morning and there was a pearly white mist over the lake.
3. Is a loaded question similar to innuendo?
4. What literary device is present below?Cece sells shells on the seashore.
5. "To work together, to pray together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together"
6. The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells). Although the term is not used frequently in the multiple-choice section, you can look for this in any essay passage. It can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, supply a musical sound, and/or echo the sense of the passage.
7. Which logical fault is this:Jane is an intelligent, insightful, well-educated and personable individual, which begs the question:why does she stay at that dead-end job?
8. "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master." ~Christian Lous Lange~ The main message in this quote is that .....
9. What rhetorical device attributes human qualities to non-human entities or abstract concepts?
10. In SOAPSTone, the second S is representative of the main focus or idea of the nonfiction piece.
11. True or False:Good rhetoric urges action.
12. Order of importance
13. Speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing
14. This rhetorical technique is a question given by the author to provoke thought that does not require an answer.
15. How do we know what the mood of a text is?
16. Persuasion is the purse or intention of convincing another to act or think.
17. What is the meaning of parallelism?
18. Which one is not a definition of "rhetoric" ?
19. A mistaken belief that one event must be caused by another.
20. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain."1 (Richard III, V, iii)This text is an example of .....
21. Economically challenged
22. Three nouns, adjectives or verbs will be used in a list within a sentence
23. The first A in SPACECAT stands for:
24. Rhetorical Appealpersuading by using logic and reasoning (logic)
25. Which tribe was tricked into signing a treaty?
26. What part of the story introduces the characters and setting (time and place)?
27. A student is writing an article about college loan forgiveness. Which audience characteristic is NOT likely to be important for the writer to take into account?
28. Identify the rhetorical device in the sentence: "The press has been following the royal family closely."
29. Using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter. .....
30. A word or expression used in a non-literal way.
31. Find the Vocabulary Word-Relating to the secondary or suggerstive meaning of a word in addition to its literal meaning.
32. What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?I want to run, I want to hideFrom all the pain he caused inside.I want to scream, I want to cry.Why can't I tell him goodbye?
33. Annulled; repealed; abolished; cancelled
34. A high school student writes a newspaper article explaining why school should start at 9am instead of 8am. She:
35. Repeating the exact same consonant SOUND, not letter, in close succession at least 3 times.
36. A question that the audience is not supposed to answer
37. Which rhetorical appeals involves using humor as a means to convince your audience?
38. An example of an allusion is .....
39. Who argued that rhetors should make use of invented ethos at the start of every speech?
40. Two unrelated objects are compared for their shared qualities
41. Like a disgruntled elephant, Melissa shook her curls.
42. "The children had lost everything:their family, their home, their pet dog" is an example of
43. Which of the lines from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" contains an analogy?
44. Why is it important to use pathos in conjunction with other rhetorical devices?
45. "But it is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope ..... because the nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out."
46. What is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point?
47. A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.
48. When an author, speaker, or advertiser provides a reason(s) that oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument.
49. Grammatical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity
50. Two contrasting objects, images, or ideas placed together or described together, so that differences are emphasized.
51. What are the constraints of the Rhetorical Situation?
52. Which rhetorical appeal appeals to the audience's ethics and credibility?
53. What is the term for the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some could otherwise be omitted?
54. When three adjectives or phrases are listed.
55. Which of the following is a definition of jargon?
56. A protracted metaphor or conceit which makes a series of parallel comparisons
57. I hear your voice, just like an angel sighing
58. Which logical fallacy's definition is "because an event occurred first, it must have caused this later event?"
59. "I was annoyed at the way they kept talking over me."
60. An appeal based on examples of suffering
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