This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 128 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 128 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The term that means saying something in restrained terms is A) Personification. B) Folding. C) Metonymy. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 2. A conclusion is based on an argument that the origins of a person, idea, institute, or theory determine its character, nature, or worth. A) Straw Man. B) Red Herring. C) Genetic Fallacy. D) False Causality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genetic Fallacy. 3. Acknowledgement of other points of view in an argument by yielding or compromising in some way. A) Anaphora. B) Concession. C) Antithesis. D) Expletive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concession. 4. Identify the rhetorical appeal in this example:It has been an unbelievably difficult week. My grandma died, and my girlfriend just broke up with me. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 5. This is an attack on the character of a person rather than his/her opinions or arguments A) To Man. B) To the people. C) Begging the Claim/Question. D) Circular Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To Man. 6. When Cheryl met John, it was like the stars aligned. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. The issue/topic at question A) Speaker. B) Occasion. C) Audience. D) Purpose. E) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Subject. 8. This part of an editorial serves as background about the issue. A) Counter Attack. B) Title. C) News Peg. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) News Peg. 9. Audience is ..... A) A reader or group of readers capable of acting on this exigence. B) What the author intends for the reader(s) to do while and after they read the text. C) A gap, a need, a lack, something that needs doing. The cause for an author to write. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A reader or group of readers capable of acting on this exigence. 10. He was the main writer of the "Declaration of Independence. A) Jefferson. B) Franklin. C) Paine. D) Henry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jefferson. 11. Rhetoric is needed in a democracy. Where was the first democracy? A) Spain. B) Russia. C) Greece. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greece. 12. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail"This is an example of which rhetorical device? A) Allusion. B) Anaphora. C) Conduplication. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antimetabole. 13. The Rose* shook her curls. (* The Rose is Melissa. Don't worry about it.) A) Apophasis. B) Anaphora. C) Alliteration. D) Antonomasia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antonomasia. 14. Consciousness of place came ebbing back to him slowly over a vast tract of time unlit, unfelt, unlived (Wilde). A) Epistrophe. B) Folding. C) Hendiadys. D) Diacope. E) Unconnected. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Unconnected. 15. If Tiger Woods were to endorse Nike, which rhetorical device is being used? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 16. Written or spoken language used to persuade or impress an audience. A) Rhetoric/rhetoric. B) Persuasion/persuasion. C) Forensic rhetoric. D) Epideictic rhetoric. E) Deliberative rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric/rhetoric. 17. Reader knows something characters do not. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic Irony. 18. What is this an example of:"Our expertise in roofing contracting is evidenced not only by our 50 years in the business and our staff of qualified technicians, but in the decades of satisfied customers who have come to expect nothing but the best." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 19. Which of the following is NOT a quality of a good thesis? A) Disputable. B) Clear. C) Provable. D) Undeniable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Undeniable. 20. Logical fallacy in which the arguer claims that if an event happens, a sort of chain reaction, usually ending in some dire consequence, will take place. A) Red herring. B) Hasty generalization. C) Slippery slope. D) Post hoc. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slippery slope. ← 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