This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 111 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 111 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To inform, to persuade, to entertain, to suggest are examples of ..... A) Author's tone. B) Author's rhetoric. C) Author's purpose. D) Crap. E) Just. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author's purpose. 2. Type of appeal:Listerine is recommended by most dental professionals A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 3. The author's attitude toward a subject. A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Random. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 4. "You have been the veterans of creative suffering." This is an example of which rhetorical device? A) Extended metaphor. B) Paradox. C) Pun. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 5. An appeal to logic. When the speaker draw upon statistics, credible sources, arguments premised on reason, and the inherent logic of a situation. A) Logos. B) Slogan. C) Ethos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 6. "Life is a highway." (Tom Cochrane) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Epistrophe. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. What is Aristotle's rhetorical triangle? A) A triangle graphic of the 3 rhetorical appeals:money, commercials, and advertising. B) A triangle graphic of the 3 rhetorical appeals:personification, hyperbole, and metaphor. C) A triangle graphic of the 3 rhetorical appeals:alliteration, allusion, and anaphora. D) A triangle graphic of the 3 rhetorical appeals:ethos, pathos, and logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A triangle graphic of the 3 rhetorical appeals:ethos, pathos, and logos. 8. Satirical or humorous use of a word or phrase to covey an idea exactly opposite to its real significance. A) Antiphrasis. B) Analogy. C) Antithesis. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antiphrasis. 9. Appeals to ethics, gives credibility to the speaker A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Analysis. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 10. Repetition is when a word, phrase, or idea is intentionally used or referenced over and over A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. Psychologist who developed the "hierarchy of needs"; lower-level needs (food, shelter, safety) control an individual's motivations and must be met before higher-level needs (love, accomplishment, destiny) can be addressed. A) Public relations. B) Propaganda/propaganda. C) Market research. D) Edward Bernays. E) Abraham Maslow. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Abraham Maslow. 12. "Listen, and let me be clear ..... " A) Epiphora. B) Constellation. C) Amplification. D) Unconnected. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Constellation. 13. A flaw in reasoning ..... are like tricks or illusions of thought, and they're often very sneakily used by politicians and the media to fool people. A) Litotes. B) Logical Fallacy. C) Logos. D) Loose Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logical Fallacy. 14. Why might an environmental essayist juxtapose a landfill and a wilderness? A) To stress the need for reducing waste to save the wilderness. B) To demonstrate the wilderness is the best place to put in landfills. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To stress the need for reducing waste to save the wilderness. 15. Garrison wants the slave population to have the same inalienable rights defined in the Declaration of Independence as white people have. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. The ironic minimizing of fact; presents something as less significant than it is A) Irony. B) Satire. C) Understatement. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 17. Of Which sentence is this an example? Dr. Martin Luther King argues in his "I have a dream" (1963) speech that all people should have the exact same rights as others. A) First (1). B) Second (2). C) Third (3). D) Fourth (4). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First (1). 18. A figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite A) Narrative. B) Litotes. C) Loose Sentence. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Litotes. 19. An extended, figurative comparison used to illustrate a point is a called a/an A) Rebuttal. B) Example. C) Anecdote. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 20. Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines."Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition! (King John, II, i) A) Anaphora. B) Alliteration. C) Polysyndenton. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTheory QuizzesRhetoric Quiz 1Rhetoric Quiz 2Rhetoric Quiz 3Rhetoric Quiz 4Rhetoric Quiz 5Rhetoric Quiz 6Rhetoric Quiz 7Rhetoric Quiz 8Rhetoric Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books