This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric – Quiz 428 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 428 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Our words seem small beside the loss you have endured." A) Oxymoron. B) Juxtaposition. C) Parallelism. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juxtaposition. 2. When the author writes to a person directly, they are using A) Direct Claim. B) Direct Address. C) Direct Summary. D) Direct Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct Address. 3. "The sweet smell of success." A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Pun. D) Lists of 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. What kind of figurative language is this:My shoes smell like garbage. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. What is an assumption? A) Something a writer assumes to be true about the target. B) Something that is true about the target. C) Something that is false about the target. D) The target itself. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something a writer assumes to be true about the target. 6. Organization of informationusing spatial cues such as top to bottom, left to right, etc. A) Slippery slope. B) Spatial ordering. C) Spotlight fallacy. D) Stacking the deck. E) Straw man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spatial ordering. 7. Someone can choose to give an action or an object symbolic value, even though it was not intended as part of the message A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) Not sure. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 8. What might make you question this woman's point?Soldier: "I'm a veteran, and I say our country's only choice right now is to go to war." A) It's obvious that she's lying about being a veteran. B) The country should never go to war for any reason. C) She has experience with a past war, but that doesn't mean she knows about this future war. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She has experience with a past war, but that doesn't mean she knows about this future war. 9. Define:Litotes A) Figure of explication in which two things that share at least one attribute are explicitly associated with each other. B) A device used to state an affirmative without direct use of affirmative wording. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A device used to state an affirmative without direct use of affirmative wording. 10. Be careful if you're going to go that route. I've heard that it can be very dangerous! A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 11. The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, they give a work a conversational, familiar tone. These expressions in writing include local or regional dialects. A) Colloquial/colloquialism. B) Metaphors. C) Dialect. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colloquial/colloquialism. 12. A situation that requires a person to decide between two equally attractive or equally unattractive alternatives. A) Archetype. B) Dilemma. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dilemma. 13. Denver won 4-2 A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 14. Rhetorical device that uses a repetitive sentence structure to build momentum and intensity A) Parallelism. B) Anaphora. C) Ethos. D) Amplification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 15. What is the figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by 'like' or 'as'? A) Synecdoche. B) Simile. C) Metonymy. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. "Life is but a walking shadow; a poor player ..... " This is an example of a ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Anecdote. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. To identify this rhetorical device, look for the speaker/writer to use data, facts, statistics, and events to support the claim. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 18. Read this sentence from Common Sense:The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.What rhetorical strategy is Thomas Paine most clearly using in this line? A) Personification. B) Parallelism. C) Credibility. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 19. Saying "put to sleep" instead of "euthanize" would be an example of ..... A) Euphemism. B) Metonymy. C) Aside. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 20. Latin for "to the man, " this fallacy refers to the specific diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker. A) Slippery Slope. B) Ad hominem. C) Bandwagon. D) Either-Or. E) Hasty Generalization. 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