This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric – Quiz 283 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 283 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Examples from scientific studies A) Expert opinions. B) Case studies. C) Analogies. D) Warrants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Case studies. 2. A kind of irony that deliberately represents something as a being less than it really is A) Simile. B) Understatement. C) Testimonial. D) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 3. The main idea of a passage can be found in ..... A) The title. B) The thesis statement. C) The conclusion. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 4. Unfair oversimplification of an issue by providing only two options as a possible solution is called ..... A) Either/Or. B) Bandwagon. C) Straw Man. D) Hasty Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Either/Or. 5. Which best describes the MODE or PATTERN OF ORGANIZATION in lines 49-63 ("In recent years ..... in her country")? A) Cause/Effect. B) Problem/Solution. C) Exemplification. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exemplification. 6. Choose the correct words to make the sentence parallel. Ron was an expert tennis player and ..... A) Went fishing. B) Fished. C) Liked to go fishing. D) An avid fisherman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An avid fisherman. 7. A mild word used to substitute an unpleasant or offensive word. A) Denotation. B) Archetype. C) Genre. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 8. The appeal to logos relies mostly on ..... A) Credibility. B) Emotion. C) Logic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logic. 9. By closing schools on election day, the parish is encouraging their employees to use their right of ..... A) Specter. B) Torpor. C) Suffrage. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suffrage. 10. A question is posed to an audience in order to get them to think about a subject. A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Question. 11. Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions A) Multi-connector. B) Prose. C) Rhetoric. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multi-connector. 12. What is symploce? A) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. B) Repetition of the last word of one clause or sentence at the beginning of the next. C) The use of several coordinating conjunctions used in succession. D) Repeated structure at the beginnings and endings of sentences. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repeated structure at the beginnings and endings of sentences. 13. The speed a text moves along. A) Pacing. B) Paradox. C) Narration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacing. 14. "Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum" A) Analogy. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 15. "The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you." Which rhetorical strategy is used? A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Allusion. D) Counterargument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 16. When analyzing a memoir's impact, it is important to study ..... A) Historical events. B) Societal trends. C) Pervading mindsets. D) Stylistic elements. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 17. What does the tone mean in SOAPSTone? A) Volume or loudness. B) Color or shade. C) Attitude or emotion. D) Temperature or heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Attitude or emotion. 18. Writing whose chief aim is to explain A) Argumentation. B) Narration. C) Exposition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 19. Visual literacy is ..... A) How I feel about an image. B) My awareness of an image and my ability to interpret its meaning. C) Reading a caption on Instagram. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My awareness of an image and my ability to interpret its meaning. 20. The position taken by the person making the argument; what a person is trying to prove A) Claim. B) Rhetorical triangle. C) Rhetoric. D) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Claim. ← 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