This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric – Quiz 431 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 431 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The student was a sea of troubles." A) Understatement. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. TRUE or FALSE ..... The length of a sentence and how it's paired with sentences of different or similar lengths makes NO impact on the meaning, emotion, or emphasis of a passage. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 3. Part AWhich statement best reflects the central idea of Catt's speech? A) Young men and immigrants discriminate against American women. B) The United States is the only country that does not have female suffrage. C) Women earn as much money as men and should be able to vote. D) Women as citizens and taxpayers must have the right to vote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Women as citizens and taxpayers must have the right to vote. 4. "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." A) Anaphora. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 5. The use of successive verbal constructions (patterns) in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure-usually in a series A) Anaphora. B) Parallelism. C) Metaphor. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 6. Which rhetorical elements does Dr. King use in the following quote from the speech? "I have a dream that one day my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." A) Emotional appeal. B) Parallelism. C) Alliteration. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 7. An appeal to trust, credibility, and ethics is ..... A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Burritos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 8. Rhetorical strategy in which contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences. A) Antithesis. B) Imagery. C) Parallelism. D) Multi-connector. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 9. "I came, I saw, I conquered." .....Julius Caesar A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 10. A beautiful celebrity appears in an advertisement for makeup. You trust her giving this advice because she is so beautiful; this is an example of A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 11. A student is writing an essay for a political science course. Which of the following fonts and sizes is acceptable for the student to use? A) 11-pt Comic Sans. B) 14-pt Rockwell Nova. C) 12-pt Times New Roman. D) 9-pt Algerian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12-pt Times New Roman. 12. What does the term device most closely match? A) Iphone. B) Thing. C) Tool. D) Sign. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tool. 13. Petition or request A) Solicitation. B) Infamy. C) Rhetoric. D) Sustain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solicitation. 14. Devices (2)? The "pen is mightier than the sword" from Edward Bulwer Lytton's play Cardinal Richelieu. A) Metonymy and metonymy. B) Synecdoche and synecdoche. C) Metaphor and comparison. D) Alliteration and juxtaposition . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy and metonymy. 15. A means of speaking out about issues in a society (it may take the form of rhetoric as well as artistic forms) is A) Social commentary. B) Call to action. C) Artistic expression. D) Political dissent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social commentary. 16. Divides genres, author determines the length of the line (a general term for anything that is not poetry) A) Metonymy. B) Prose. C) Invective. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose. 17. Sentence construction that places equal grammatical construction near each other, or repeats grammatical patterns. A) Parenthetical Idea. B) Parallelism. C) Poetic Device. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 18. What device provides a variety of writing styles and purposes A) Predicate Nominative. B) Predicate Adjective. C) Rhetorical Modes. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Modes. 19. A persuasive technique designed to make people feel that a product or idea is popular and that everyone else is doing it. People feel like they're missing out or falling behind if they don't join the crowd and be a part of the trend. A) Plain Folks. B) Bandwagon Appeal. C) Testimonial. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bandwagon Appeal. 20. A formal poem lamenting the death of a particular person. A) To Man. B) Archetype. C) Catharsis. D) Elegy. 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