This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 126 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 126 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Use of dramas, comedies, folklore, and myths A) Classical. B) Colonial. C) Romantic. D) Realist. E) Modernist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Classical. 2. What is the best definition for allusion? A) A comparison of two extreme opposites. B) Referring to a well-known person, novel, or insitution. C) Word choice that makes the reader feel a specific emotion. D) A word or phrase that is repeated to add emphasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Referring to a well-known person, novel, or insitution. 3. The intended recipients of the speech A) Antithesis. B) Biblical allusions. C) Audience. D) Hasty generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audience. 4. "This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable Rights' of 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." ' A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Vernacular. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 5. One of the major divisions of genre, it refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all of its forms A) Rhetoric. B) Prose. C) Loose sentence. D) Coherence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose. 6. Memory is ..... A) Wanting the speech to be memorable for the audience. B) The storing up a "treasury of things invented". C) The memorization of the speech being delivered. D) ALL of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ALL of the above. 7. Which of the following is not an example of antithesis? A) Injustice anywhere is a threat the justice everywhere. B) No justice, no peace. C) Black Lives Matter. D) One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Black Lives Matter. 8. This appeal uses facts, statistics, research, and evidence in the message conveyed to the audience. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 9. Persuasive Techniques Hard Evidence: A) Professional that knows what their talking about. B) It is solid information and proof of your argument. C) Gives People a visual. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is solid information and proof of your argument. 10. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers I Have a Dream on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. What is the CONTEXT of his speech? A) A Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow laws, segregation, Brown v Board of Education not implemented, nonviolent protests for equality. B) B March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow laws, segregation, Brown v Board of Education not implemented, nonviolent protests for equality. 11. "And" and "So" are examples of AWUBIS words. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. This is a conclusion that assumes that if 'A' occurred after 'B' then 'B' must have caused 'A.' A) Straw Man. B) Red Herring. C) Genetic Fallacy. D) False Causality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) False Causality. 13. Rhetoric is a skill which can be learned and improved with practice. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. This may involve ideas or emotions we connect with a word. A) Allusion. B) Connotation. C) Rhetoric. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 15. ..... is the person for whom a writer writes, or composer composes. A writer uses a particular style of language, tone, and content according to what he knows about his ..... In simple words, ..... refers to the spectators, listeners, and intended readers of a writing, performance, or speech. A) Purpose. B) Message. C) Logos. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Audience. 16. Hurry up, gray beard! A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 17. Which of the following words mean "overly concerned about accuracy and detail" ? A) Autonomous. B) Ostentatious. C) Fastidious. D) Superfluous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fastidious. 18. Which of the following sentences does not have an alliteration? A) This toothpaste has an intense icy taste. B) They displayed a giant jar. C) My uncle is one wise man. D) There is no such thing as an elephant's egg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This toothpaste has an intense icy taste. 19. The purposeful omission of conjunctions in a sentence. A) Epistrophe. B) Imagery. C) Unconnected. D) Multi-connector. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unconnected. 20. This fallacy compares minor misdeeds with major atrocities. A) Slippery Slope. B) Hasty Generalization. C) Either/Or False Dilemma. D) Moral Equivalence. 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