This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 122 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 122 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figurative image that implies the similarity between things otherwise dissimilar. (A comparison) A) Metaphor. B) Mood. C) Allusion. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. Irrevelent A) For form something by combining separate parts. B) Likely to occur. C) Not relevant. D) To put to use. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not relevant. 3. Audience appeals are A) Ways to cheer up an audience. B) Methods of persuading an audience through emotion, logic and ethics. C) Methods of persuading an audience to give you something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Methods of persuading an audience through emotion, logic and ethics. 4. Attributing human qualities to objects, abstractions, or animals. A) Simile. B) Oxymoron. C) Pacing. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 5. Loaded words is a propaganda device that is used to: A) Make us feel emotionally affected by the words that are being used to advertise to us. B) Make us feel like we can say whatever we want to say. C) Trick us into thinking that we should be careful what we say about a product. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Make us feel emotionally affected by the words that are being used to advertise to us. 6. A statement that is not good enough to explain how good, bad, or impressive something really is? A) Understatement. B) Personification. C) Parallelism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understatement. 7. In formal logic, a structure of deductive logic in which correctly formed major and minor premises lead to a necessary conclusion. A) Purpose. B) Logos. C) Tone. D) Syllogism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syllogism. 8. Identify the word or phrase that creates epistrophe in the following: "And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth, " Abraham Lincoln A) The people. B) Government. C) Perish. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The people. 9. If it were me, I would be angry. After years of this type of disrespect from your boss, countless hours wasted, birthdays missed ..... it's time that you took a stand. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Pathos and Logos. E) Pathos and Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 10. A reference to a famous or well-known event, idea, or figure.Choose the word that best fits the definition above. A) Antimetabole. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 11. ID the ADVERB:The students happily ran out of the doors on the last day of school. A) Last. B) Ran. C) Out. D) Happily. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Happily. 12. What is a common rhetorical device used in speeches? A) Repetition. B) Allusions. C) Tricolon. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 13. Celebrity endorsements are what type of rhetorical appeal? A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 14. When a nonhuman or an inanimate object possesses the attribution of human qualities A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Symbolism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 15. Comparing two things that are not comparable. Ex:apples to dogs A) False Cause. B) False dilemma. C) False Premise. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) False Premise. 16. WE SHALL NOT FLAG OR FAIL. WE SHALL GO ON TO THE END ..... WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER. A) Repetition. B) Rhetorical question. C) Antithesis. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 17. Ethos, logos, and pathos are called: A) Argument tools. B) Modes of persuasion. C) Research resources. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modes of persuasion. 18. What type of reasoning uses a given fact or set of facts to deduce other facts to reach a conclusion? (a+b=c) A) Abductive Reasoning. B) Inductive Reasoning. C) Deductive Reasoning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deductive Reasoning. 19. Dishonest practices and claims to have special knowledge and skill A) Quackery. B) Demagogy. C) Sycophancy. D) Exhortation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quackery. 20. An obvious, intended exaggeration A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Verbal irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. ← 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