This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 119 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 119 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The way the author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences A) Diction. B) Syntax. C) Tone. D) Ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 2. Which rhetorical scheme is being used in the following: "To err is human, but to forgive is divine" A) Unconnected. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 3. Personification:Giving inanimate object human characteristics. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Which of these is an example of Epistrophe/Epiphora? A) How long will vacation last? How long will school last? How long will life last?. B) Everyone loves Halloween. Kids love Halloween. Teens love Halloween. Parents love Halloween. C) This question is pretty easy. This question should have been answered already. This question is done. D) This could be the example, but maybe it isn't. This might be the example, but it's probably not it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Everyone loves Halloween. Kids love Halloween. Teens love Halloween. Parents love Halloween. 5. Here the main conflict and suspensebuilds. The protagonist struggles with major and minorconflicts and begins to learn and change. A) Theme. B) Rising action. C) Exposition. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rising action. 6. Persuasion that appeals to emotions A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 7. What is context? A) People competing to win. B) The time and place something was written or spoken. C) The general overview of a situation. D) The undesirable parts of reading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The time and place something was written or spoken. 8. The process of moving from a general rule to a specific example A) Denotation. B) Ethical Appeal. C) Deduction. D) Explication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deduction. 9. At the ..... of the detectives, I went to the police station to give my statement about the crime. A) Solicitation. B) Reconciliation. C) Respite. D) Suffrage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solicitation. 10. Select the rhetorical APPEAL in the following example:AS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, I HAVE DIRECTED THE FULL RESOURCES OF OUR INTELLIGENCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITIES TO FIND THOSE RESPONSIBLE AND TO BRING THEM TO JUSTICE. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 11. Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence below? The adjustment back to normal will be interesting and I am excited to see it head on. What will you do to experience adventure? A) Antithesis. B) Unrelated. C) Rhetorical question. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical question. 12. He has many mouths to feed A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 13. -Repetition of the same word in a sentence-Repetition of parts of a sentence-Repetition of repeating clauses A) Simile. B) Analogy. C) Antithesis. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 14. A catchy phrase or statement often used to sell a service or product A) Tone. B) Slogan. C) Claim. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slogan. 15. What rhetorical device is used in the following quote: "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?" A) Parallelism. B) Rhetorical question. C) Oxymoron. D) Bandwagon appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 16. The ministry responsible for waging war and maintaining military control A) Ministry of Peace. B) Ministry of Plenty. C) Ministry of Love. D) Ministry of Truth tags1984. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ministry of Peace. 17. What is an "expert opinion" ? A) Using the opinion of those who know a lot about a topic to give further weight to their argument. B) Using the words 'we' or 'us'-is often used to get a reader onside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Using the opinion of those who know a lot about a topic to give further weight to their argument. 18. Overall, the precis' will summarize the text's A) Length, tone, and rhetorical devices. B) Details, function, and theme. C) Diction, syntax, and form. D) Argument, content, and purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Argument, content, and purpose. 19. Which word correctly completes the sentence?The car was ..... because it could not even start. A) Infamy. B) Ineffectual. C) Torpor. D) Ingenious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ineffectual. 20. Similar grammatical structures expressing related ideas A) Antithesis. B) To Man. C) Parallelism. D) Irony. E) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. ← 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