This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric – Quiz 271 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 271 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Doctors say this will help you live longer." A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 2. A literary device that makes use of the unexpected to create humor, suspense or tension. A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Anaphora. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 3. The term 'hired hands' refers to the staff or workers A) Synecdoche. B) Paradox. C) Simile. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 4. Which of the following words signals a valid generalization? A) Many. B) Everyone. C) Never. D) Always. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Many. 5. Rhetorical Appeals A) The perceived need for a text; the issue or situation the prompted the text. B) What the speaker wants the audience to do after receiving the message. C) Persuasive techniques speakers use to try to convince their audience. D) The circumstances that bring a text into existence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuasive techniques speakers use to try to convince their audience. 6. In his speech, Patrick Henry asserts that ..... is inevitable. A) War. B) Reconciliation. C) Peace. D) Submission. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) War. 7. An opposing argument that the writer presents ..... A) Deduction. B) Counterargument. C) Refutation. D) Claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Counterargument. 8. What are rhetorical appeals? A) Strategies writers use to make their claims convincing to readers. B) Strategies zombie hunters use to catch zombies. C) A type of avian mating call. D) A type of logical fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strategies writers use to make their claims convincing to readers. 9. Which of the following is NOT a phrase King repeats? A) "Let freedom ring". B) "Go back to ". C) "I have a dream". D) "Always march ahead". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Always march ahead". 10. Which rhetorical situation do the following questions address? How do you want your audience to feel?Do you want your audience to see you as reasonable? angry? thoughtful? ironic? something else? A) Purpose. B) Audience. C) Stance. D) Genre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stance. 11. I am going to get an iPhone because everyone in my class has one, and they're cool. A) To Man. B) Hasty Generalization. C) Bandwagon. D) Slippery Slope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bandwagon. 12. What are ethos, pathos, and logos? A) Rhetorical devices. B) Rhetorical appeals. C) Rhetorical strategies. D) Rhetorical analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical appeals. 13. Which definition best identifies with sarcasm? A) A type of humor that ridicules short-comings and desires change. B) A type of humor that ridicules short-comings is intensely personal. C) A type of humor that ridicules short-comings and is designed to cut pain. D) A type of humor that does not ridicules short-comings and is intended to provide humor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A type of humor that ridicules short-comings and is designed to cut pain. 14. Rhetoric is linked with: A) Anarchy. B) Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Democracy. 15. Which of these is an example of hyperbole? A) He literally ate the entire pizza. B) My math teacher is older than the hills. C) If the questions were worth 5 points each, then I know I failed. D) Did you know that a strawberry isn't actually a berry at all?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My math teacher is older than the hills. 16. A speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea A) Straw man. B) Bandwagon. C) Faulty causality. D) Slippery slope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Straw man. 17. "The earth laughs beneath my heavy feetAt the blasphemy in my old jangly walk" A) Exaggeration. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. How can audience be defined? A) It is who the writer is addressing; who the writer is speaking to. B) It is the person doing the writing or speaking. C) It is the circumstances surrounding the situation. D) It contains appeals to logic or reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is who the writer is addressing; who the writer is speaking to. 19. Competence A) Appeal based on the credibility and trustworthiness of the speaker. B) Having the qualifications and expertise in a specific area. C) Persuasive techniques speakers use to try to convince their audience. D) Using emotion to persuade (guilt, humor, pride, etc.). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having the qualifications and expertise in a specific area. 20. Let the storm rage on! The cold never bothered me anyway! A) Paradox. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRhetoric Quiz 1Rhetoric Quiz 2Rhetoric Quiz 3Rhetoric Quiz 4Rhetoric Quiz 5Rhetoric Quiz 6Rhetoric Quiz 7Rhetoric Quiz 8Rhetoric Quiz 9Rhetoric Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books