This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 103 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 103 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Who's ready to party?" is an example of A) Rhetorical question. B) Anecdote. C) Repetition. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 2. Studying a memoir's setting leads to a more ..... analysis of it's events and message A) Narrow. B) Broad. C) Inaccurate. D) Global. E) Structural. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Global. 3. "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war." A) Silence. B) Receipt. C) Apostrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Receipt. 4. "Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him, Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day, count no many happy till he dies, free of pain at last." How would you describe the diction in the final lines of the play (see above)? A) Ecstatic. B) Sorrowful. C) Mellow. D) Irritated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sorrowful. 5. Inversion in the arrangement of common words A) Hyperbaton. B) Hypophora. C) Isocolon. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbaton. 6. What are the three words we talked about yesterday? A) Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. B) Ethically, Pathetically, and Logically. C) Time, Money, and Reason. D) Reason, Logic, and Emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. 7. Chocolate was her Achilles' heel. Which rhetorical device is used to get the point across here? A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Parallel structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 8. A statement that is self contradictory A) Paradox. B) Juxtaposition. C) Rhetorical question. D) Rhetorical fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 9. -I am so hungry!-Let's Taco about it. A) Idiom. B) Oxymoron. C) Pun. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 10. When a speaker uses words or phrases intended to inspire emotion in the reader, it is known as A) Charged Words. B) Loaded Language. C) Electric Speech. D) Both A & B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A & B. 11. Which of the following quotes from Heller's Catch-22 contains an example of antithesis? A) There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for. B) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive. C) You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?. D) All of the above are examples of antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive. 12. "They have worked against everything we have worked so hard to build, and they don't care who gets hurt in the process. Make no mistake, they are the enemy and they will not stop until we are all destroyed." A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 13. A hospital, after all, is not the best place for a baby to be born. A) Fact. B) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opinion. 14. In Obama's Rosa Parks speech, the President made many allusions to what? A) Biblical stories. B) Muslim objects of worship. C) Mythical heroes. D) Jewish holidays. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biblical stories. 15. Choose the word that best completes the sentence.Hint:Determine the connotation (positive or negative) through context clues. Although the problem was difficult to resolve, Sandra and John were ..... in searching for an answer. Their teacher was quite proud. A) Persistent. B) Stubborn. C) Bullheaded. D) Headstrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persistent. 16. The "American Dream" is ..... A) Ethical appeal. B) Logical appeal. C) Emotional appeal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethical appeal. 17. A position or understanding based on a particular person's opinion, biases, or life experiences. A) Rebuttal. B) Claim. C) Objectivity. D) Subjectivity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subjectivity. 18. The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. A) Irony. B) Flashback. C) Foreshadow. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 19. Gaps in logic A) Logos. B) Concession. C) Ignorance. D) Logical fallacies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logical fallacies. 20. The four possible purposes of an author are to A) Educate, allude, inform, and inspure. B) Entertain, inform, inspire, and persuade. C) Educate, persuade, inspire, and facilitate. D) Persuade, facilitate, argue, and inform. 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