This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric – Quiz 438 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 438 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Evidence that is in the form of a short narrative about an interesting or amusing incident, usually in order to support a larger point. A) Personal experience. B) Anecdote. C) Facts and statistics. D) Expert opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anecdote. 2. A general agreement about something; an idea or opinion that is shared by all the people in a group. A) Demographic/demographic. B) Propaganda/propaganda. C) Fallacy. D) Agreement. E) Abraham Maslow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agreement. 3. Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman object A) Paradox. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 4. What the speaker hopes to accomplish; the desired outcome of the argument A) Speaker. B) Occasion. C) Audience. D) Purpose. E) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Purpose. 5. The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in construction, sound, meter, or meaning. A) Parallelism. B) Prose. C) Symbolism. D) Analogy. E) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 6. Rhetoric traditionally associated with blue and the head? A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Legos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 7. Consider the following idiom: "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." Why is this also a juxtaposition example? A) In this case, dogs are being personified as able to learn tricks. B) The reverse psychology of this proverb implies that you can indeed learn new things when you've gotten older. C) The contrast between old and new demonstrates the difficulty of learning new things at an old age or after getting stuck in one's ways. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The contrast between old and new demonstrates the difficulty of learning new things at an old age or after getting stuck in one's ways. 8. What do we look at to determine the tone of a piece of text? A) Author's attitude. B) Word choice. C) The audience's feelings. D) Word connotations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Word choice. 9. Using words that are current and understandable to the audience A) Rhetoric. B) Transition. C) Correctness. D) Clarity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Correctness. 10. Which word correctly completes the sentence?The sign outside the building clearly stated that ..... was not allowed, but the man kept asking for money anyway. A) Spector. B) Reconciliation. C) Solicitation. D) Respite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Solicitation. 11. A set of beliefs about what is morally right and wrong. A) Logic (noun). B) Empathy/empathy (noun). C) Sympathy/sympathy (noun). D) Ethics/ethics (noun). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethics/ethics (noun). 12. What does it mean to concede? A) The main idea. B) Visually describing lanuage. C) Placing two elements together for rhetorical effect. D) Acknowledging an argument exists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acknowledging an argument exists. 13. Identify the example of allusion A) An inverted Tower of Babel. B) Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. C) The prisoners found themselves in a social and cultural void. D) The memory of eveil will serve as a shield against evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An inverted Tower of Babel. 14. What is the purpose of epiplexis? A) To persuade the audience. B) To praise the opposing perspectives. C) To provide supporting details. D) To chide and convert those with opposing or neutral perspectives tagsSupporting details. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To chide and convert those with opposing or neutral perspectives tagsSupporting details. 15. "Imagine the joy on a child's face as they unwrap their first gift during the holiday season, and you'll understand the impact of your contribution to our toy drive."Which rhetoric is used? A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 16. What is NOT 'logic' in persuasive writing? A) A particular method of reasoning or argumentation reason or sound judgment, as in utterances or actions. B) Any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, hate, love, etc. C) Convincing forcefulness; inexorable truth or persuasiveness; the irresistible logic of the facts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, hate, love, etc. 17. Immense, enormous A) Prosperity. B) Prodigious. C) Hallowed. D) Defaulted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prodigious. 18. An argument in which the writer, instead of applying evidence simply restates the point in other language. A) False Analogy. B) Snob Appeal. C) Hasty Generalization. D) Circular Reasoning/ Begging the Question (Unsupported Assertion). E) Appeal to Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Circular Reasoning/ Begging the Question (Unsupported Assertion). 19. Two Reasons A) Opposing arguments. B) Teamwork. C) Non-argumentative. D) Your mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opposing arguments. 20. To show, indicate, or suggest in advance A) Foreshadowing. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. ← 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