Global MCQ Practice

🌐 Total MCQ
🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books

Rhetoric Quiz 89 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. What does the "t" represent in SOAPStone?
2. If Melissa were here, she'd shake her curls and say, "How fitting."
3. He delivered a ..... speech that did not even address our problems.
4. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
5. Wording that has a strong connotation or mental image
6. Honest and ordinary people, like you and I, choose this product.
7. Uses pronouns I/me
8. Rhetorical appeal:provides a sense of emotion
9. In other words, rhetoric consists of the techniques or tools used to ..... an audience to do or believe something.
10. Examples:wealth and poverty, beauty and ugliness, darkness and light
11. A question is asked not to be answered but to make a point
12. Who is the actor behind the famous agent parody "Austin Powers" ?
13. A 14 line poem, written in iambic pentameter is called a
14. Ellipsis is used to
15. Deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion
16. A stated comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words like or as
17. The part of the argument that sums up the reasons or the call for action
18. "1 out of every 2, 000-3, 000 babies is born with a tooth."
19. "By doing this ..... " is such an important phrase because
20. Trump is good at changing the volume and pitch of his voice to make what he says stand out in your memory.
21. Logos is the appeal that you use.....Logos is the appeal that you use.....
22. "Five score years ago ..... " is an example of what rhetorical tool?
23. Isla, Arjun, and Nora are debating about a Ford Mustang commercial they just watched. They are trying to figure out how the commercial gains or loses its credibility. What do you think?
24. Where do we commonly encounter manipulative and deceptive rhetoric? Choose the best answer.
25. Why is it important to use Logos when persuading?
26. Rhetorical Device
27. When considering this element of the S.O.A.P.S.Tone we are looking at what the speaker or author's attitude is toward the subjects he/she is addressing. Usually, this is revealed by looking at diction, syntax, and figurative language.
28. The word Rhetoric is from what language?
29. "I see trees of green, red roses too I seem them bloom, for me and you And I think to myself What a wonderful world I see skies of blue, and clouds of white, The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself What a wonderful world"
30. 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 AWhich type of persuasive appeal is being used by the speaker?
31. An over-exaggeration used for emphasis or effect (example:There is enough food in this fridge to feed an army!)
32. The way a writer or speaker presents a topic-persuade, inform, entertain
33. A type of figurative language in which one thing is said to be another thing.
34. A person can have ethos if he can convince the audience that he
35. ....., it is also important that true friends be there for you. Which transition word adds more proof to the statement?
36. The content of a memoir must include
37. Choose the most effective method of persuading someone that you love them.
38. This is used as a means of convincing an audience via the authority or credibility of the persuader
39. The popular TV program features the 'living dead'.
40. How can kairos help in persuading the audience?
41. A contradiction.
42. From the Greek, literally means "teaching." Has the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles.
43. True or false are there 2 types of rhetoric?
44. What doe "ethos" stand for in the rhetorical triangle?
45. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:You, the people have the power-the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
46. Playing on audience's emotions by distracting them from the facts
47. Is the words used correctly? He bases his fear of heights to the time his dog fell out of the second floor window and died.
48. The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. Similar to diction, but this refers to the groups of words, while diction refers to the individual words.
49. Studies have shown that students who read for 20 minutes every day score in the 98th percentile on standardized tests.
50. A character says the opposite of what he or she means.
51. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint
52. The direct meaning of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; explicit or primary meaning.
53. When an author is trying to persuade his/audience base off their needs which Rhetorical Device is using
54. Was not the best of the times and also not the worst of the times.
55. What is the AUDIENCE for the 2018 Question 2 text?
56. Sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions; uses terms related to the five senses
57. Places the reader inside the character's head and makes the reader privy to the continuous, chaotic flow of disconnected, half-formed thoughts and impressions in the character's mind.
58. What is the main characteristic of ethos?
59. Ethos relates to the .....
60. Pick the correct sentence
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books