This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 127 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 127 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the beginning, what image does the narrator describe that represents the problem(s) he plans to resolve? A) A horse with 3 legs that is killed and its meat sold in market. B) A poor woman begging with a string of her children behind her. C) A poor man with a thick beard begging for food, then dying on the street. D) A thin, malnourished child eating crumbs from the dumpster behind a diner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A poor woman begging with a string of her children behind her. 2. The person or people to whom the argument is addressed; should consider their interests and concerns A) Speaker. B) Occasion. C) Audience. D) Purpose. E) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audience. 3. "Water, water, everywhere And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, And not a drop to drink" A) Irony. B) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 4. Taps into people's compassion (feelings) for others. A) Appeal to pity/emotion. B) Anecdote. C) Bandwagon. D) False Authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to pity/emotion. 5. This is included in the rhetorical situation. It is the listener, viewer, or reader of a text or performance; it is important to note that there may be multiple ..... s. A) Speaker. B) Subject. C) Audience. D) Rhetorical appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audience. 6. Define:Chiasmus A) A deliberate exaggeration of a person, thing, quality, event to emphasize a point external to the object of exaggeration. B) A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. 7. The words "we" and "us" can be utilized as an ethical appeal. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 8. Match the definition with the fallacy: "inference based on little to no evidence/stereotyping" A) It does not follow. B) Red Herring. C) Straw Man. D) Hasty Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hasty Generalization. 9. "All is fair in love and war. Beggars can't be choosers." These are examples of what? A) Allusion. B) Juxtaposition. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juxtaposition. 10. Angry I am, happy I am not! A) Parallelism. B) Syntax. C) Alliteration. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 11. Reasoning from General to Specific A) Deductive Reasoning. B) Inductive Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deductive Reasoning. 12. A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. A) Synecdoche. B) Aphorism. C) Sarcasm. D) Colloquialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aphorism. 13. Brief references to a person, an event, or a place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art. A) Figure of Speech. B) Allusion. C) Parallelism. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 14. What terms must be in the missing premise from the following enthymeme?Carbon is a heavy element, so it is stardust. A) Heavy elements and carbon. B) Stardust and heavy elements. C) Carbon and stardust. D) Carbon and things that are not heavy elements. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stardust and heavy elements. 15. A stylistic device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of the clauses or sentences. A) Enumeratio. B) Epistrophe. C) Ethos. D) Expletive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 16. Two strongly contrasting ideas, expressed using parallel structure, are placed side by side A) Ethos. B) Antithesis. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 17. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. A) Tricolon. B) Repetition. C) Ethos. D) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tricolon. 18. The emotions associated with a word. A) Catharsis. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Emphathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 19. Can include alliteration) when the author repeats a word or phrase for emphasis in their argument ..... A) Rhetorical Question. B) Allusion. C) Repetition. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 20. Use of comparing how two unlike things can be the same A) Truth Surrogate. B) Rhetorical Definition. C) Rhetorical Analogy. D) Rhetorical Explanation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Analogy. ← 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