This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric – Quiz 429 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 429 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which rhetorical device relies on facts and evidence to support arguments? A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 2. In "The Emancipation Proclamation, " Lincoln delivers his central message about how all the people held as slaves in the Confederacy are freed in his opening paragraph, then repeats it in paragraph 5. Which rhetorical device is that? A) Logos the 1st time b/c he's stating government policy; pathos the 2nd time b/c he's repeating for emotional effect. B) Ethos for both because he's establishing the credibility of slaves as real people. C) Pathos the first time b/c he uses a lot of descriptive language to juxtapose the horrors of slavery with the beauty of freedom; logos the 2nd time b/c he cut all that and just made his point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos the 1st time b/c he's stating government policy; pathos the 2nd time b/c he's repeating for emotional effect. 3. Which of these is hyperbole? A) She lost 20 pounds. B) He was so hungry. C) He ate a mountain of spaghetti. D) The cat slept all afternoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He ate a mountain of spaghetti. 4. What is the effect of polysyndeton? A) Rhythm. B) Emphasis. C) Sound. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emphasis. 5. I went walking with my friends to the pond to do some swimming. What rhetoric is being used here? A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Deductive Argument. D) Inductive Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 6. ANTIPHRASIS A) A connection made between two things. B) Uses a word with an opposite meaning. C) Repeats words or phrases in reverse order. D) Using an adjective or an adjective phrase to describe a noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uses a word with an opposite meaning. 7. The tone of a speech can often experience shifts throughout. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. In rhetoric, an appeal to the audience's sense of logic A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 9. Same word or words is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences A) Anaphora. B) Antimetabole. C) Auxesis. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 10. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." A) Silence. B) Ethos. C) Weather. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 11. Which of the following is NOT a literary characteristic of the Enlightenment Era? A) Formal style. B) Presence of allusions. C) Emphasis on the supernatural. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emphasis on the supernatural. 12. Which of the following is NOT a major component to rhetorical analysis? A) Context. B) Occasion. C) Purpose. D) Bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bias. 13. The rhetorical situation collectively refers to the speaker, audience, context, exigence, rhetorical choices, rhetorical appeals, and tone. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 14. "Life is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly." A) Rhetorical question. B) Hypophora. C) Metaphor. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. What is pathos an appeal to? A) Logic. B) Credibility. C) Emotion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emotion. 16. "A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night." A) Repetition. B) Figurative Language. C) Parallel Structure. D) Appeal to Audience's Feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative Language. 17. What is the rhetorical situation? A) The circumstances in which a speaker communicates and context surrounding the piece. B) The credibility of the speaker. C) Compositional choices and techniques a speaker uses. D) The use of ethos, pathos, and logos in a speech or text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The circumstances in which a speaker communicates and context surrounding the piece. 18. Read the question.Answer TRUE if it is Rhetorical.Answer FALSE if it is not Rhetorical.Question:Do you know what time it is? A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 19. A figure of speech thatoffers an exaggerated or extravagant statement (that is not meant to be taken literally)in order to highlight a pointis called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 20. Substitution of one word for another which it suggests A) Metonymy. B) Pun. C) Apostrophe. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. ← 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