This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric – Quiz 275 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 275 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is required for a group of words to be a CLAUSE? A) A subject only. B) A verb only. C) A subject and a verb. D) A conjunction and a verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A subject and a verb. 2. What is an opposing argument or debate? A) Syllogism. B) Rebuttal. C) To the people. D) Assumption. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rebuttal. 3. "Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice." A) Metonymy. B) Rhetorical question. C) Anaphora. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 4. What is Framing Words? A) A picture made with words although images may also appeal to touch, hearing, and taste. B) Serve to separate and to introduce the several divisions of a subject or thought. C) Replacing a harsh word with a more pleasant one. D) A picture made with words although images may also appeal to touch, hearing, and taste-in a much broader sense, imagery refers to an author's use of figures of speech of any kind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Replacing a harsh word with a more pleasant one. 5. A persuasive technique that uses values or moral standards to persuade an audience. A) Ethical appeal. B) Emotional appeal. C) Logical appeal. D) Inductive reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethical appeal. 6. What does emotional appeal use to get the audience to feel what you feel? A) Statistics. B) Metaphors. C) Imagery. D) Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 7. Facts are ..... A) Objective. B) Subjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objective. 8. After using your phone in class WAY too much, your teacher finally called home about your phone use. When you got home and your mom threatened to ground you from your phone and you said "Mom, what if there is a gunman at school, and I have no way to communicate with you aside from my phone?" What rhetorical strategy did you use to persuade your mom to let you keep your phone? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 9. Selecting words or facts to achieve a bias intent. A) Slanting. B) Rhetoric. C) Diction. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slanting. 10. How could you manipulate logos? A) Only using facts to make the opposition look bad. B) Purposefully making the audience overly emotional. C) Using somebody else's reputation to promote your beliefs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Only using facts to make the opposition look bad. 11. Which of the following quotes is an example of irony? A) " as I have already observed, it will lessen the number of papists". B) "I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar's child". C) "But this & many others I omit, being studious of brevity". D) "Besides others who might have infant flesh at weddings". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "But this & many others I omit, being studious of brevity". 12. A conclusion that does not follow logically from the "proof" offered to support it. A) Logical fallacies. B) Circular reasoning. C) Hasty generalization. D) It does not follow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It does not follow. 13. I have always enjoyed reading the book more than ..... A) Watches the movie. B) To watch the movie. C) Watching the movie. D) I watched the movie version. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Watching the movie. 14. Who came up with the terms of rhetoric? A) Socrates. B) Pythagoras. C) Plato. D) Aristotle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aristotle. 15. This form of rhetoric builds credibility A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 16. In a speech by President Barack Obama about the economy, the C in SPACECAT is: A) The economy. B) President Obama. C) Congress. D) The American people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The economy. 17. TRUE or FALSE ..... Authors may purposefully add or neglect punctuation in forming the syntax of their sentences in order to create a desired effect. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 18. ..... uses emotion to persuade someone A) Ethos-ethical appeal. B) Pathos-emotional appeal. C) Logos-logical appeal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos-emotional appeal. 19. What technique was used by Shakespeare in Marc Antony's speech here: "and Brutus is an honourable man." A) Hyperbole. B) Verbal irony. C) Antithesis. D) Dialysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal irony. 20. Identify the appeal: "As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. 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