This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric – Quiz 406 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 406 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Utilize A) Likely to occur. B) To indicate or suggest without stating clearly. C) To recognize. D) To put to use. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To put to use. 2. Cowen writes that Greta Thunberg is the second best orator of the decade. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. What did Cicero mean by "arrangement" ? A) Planning and organizing. B) Organizing an argument with the most important point first. C) Organizing an argument with the strongest point first. D) Planning a speech meticulously. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Planning and organizing. 4. *references to events, figures, or phrases from the Bible. * A) Antitheses. B) Biblical allusions. C) Audience. D) Hasty generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biblical allusions. 5. If an author/speaker is appealing to your emotions what rhetorical device are they employing? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 6. An appeal that attempts to convey the speaker's credibility. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 7. Who is the main character in Oh, the Places You'll Go? A) The little yellow dude. B) Dr. Seuss. C) You are!. D) There are no characters in this story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) You are!. 8. The main purpose of rhetoric is to ..... A) Explain a topic to us. B) Humor us. C) Persuade us. D) Tell us a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuade us. 9. A type of appeal used to persuade an audience by use of facts and reason. A) Pathos/pathos. B) Ethos/ethos. C) Reason/reason. D) Appeal. E) Rhetoric/rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reason/reason. 10. Author's attitude toward a subject A) Exposition. B) Tone. C) Connotation. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 11. You will read Tender Is the Night, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.Sentence or Fragment? A) Sentence. B) Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sentence. 12. Which of the following is the right definition for occasion: A) Occasion shows the goal of the speaker and what he/she wants to accomplish. B) Occasion is situational. Every text is influenced by the historical, cultural, and social movements of its time. C) Occasion is specific. It is the circumstances, attitudes and events surrounding the creation of the text. D) Occasion is the person or group who creates a text. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occasion is specific. It is the circumstances, attitudes and events surrounding the creation of the text. 13. Schools are raging a war against traditional American values. A) Straw man. B) Truth surrogate. C) Hinting. D) Rhetorical definition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Straw man. 14. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." -Eleanor Roosevelt A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 15. States what a rhetor is trying to prove A) Antithesis. B) Counterclaim. C) Claim. D) Opposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claim. 16. A purpose that wants the reader to be amused or engaged with the subject A) To persuade. B) To inform. C) To entertain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To entertain. 17. The author doesn't "use diction, " she A) Invites the audience to question a commonly supported theory with assertive language in . B) Utilizes words that are assertive in orders to make the audience disagree with the commonly supported theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Invites the audience to question a commonly supported theory with assertive language in . 18. Repetition of sentence structure is A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 19. All is fair in love and war. A) Euphemism. B) Simile. C) Juxtaposition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 20. You're not old ..... you're just over the hill. A) Euphemism. B) Hyperbole. C) Juxtaposition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. ← 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