This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 129 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 129 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Potential vulnerabilities or weaknesses in an argument. They often arise from a failure to make a logical connection between the claim and the evidence used to support it. A) Logical Fallacy. B) To Man. C) To the people. D) Floodgates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logical Fallacy. 2. Why does Mayella start crying in the courtroom? A) To build up her Ethos as someone who has experience a horrible crime. B) To appeal to Pathos by making the audience feel sad for her. C) To appeal to Logos by showing that it is common sense for her to be upset. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To appeal to Pathos by making the audience feel sad for her. 3. What is a thesis? A) The author's attitude. B) Examples that prove a point. C) The main idea the author is proving. D) Repetition of grammatical or syntactical patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The main idea the author is proving. 4. The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or phrases A) Anaphora. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Adage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 5. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft buried with their bones." What does this quote mean? A) People are remembered more for their bad deeds than the good ones. B) Only the good die young. C) Power corrupts absolutely. D) Cobra Kai Never Dies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People are remembered more for their bad deeds than the good ones. 6. Who felt that rhetoric was a philosophy? A) Aristotle. B) Plato. C) Quinitillian. D) Socrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plato. 7. What is the following an example of? the rise of poverty will unlock Pandora's box of crimes A) Apostrophe. B) Analogy. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 8. Which rhetorical device? a A) A Ethos. B) B Pathos. C) C Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Ethos. 9. Choose the correct definition of voice. A) The transition from childhood to adulthood. B) Language that cannot be taken literally. C) Distinctive style of the author and/or of narrator. D) The author tells you exactly what the character is like. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Distinctive style of the author and/or of narrator. 10. Changed to something else A) Involuntary. B) Abridged. C) Converted. D) Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Converted. 11. Which rhetorical appeal focuses on the speaker's credibility and expertise? A) Logos. B) Mythos. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethos. 12. This encompasses the speaker, audience, context, exigence, and all the surrounding factors that go into achieving a purpose. A) Requirement. B) Audience. C) Rhetorical situation. D) Message. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical situation. 13. A brief statement that expresses a wise observation about life A) Allusion. B) Aphorism. C) Analogy. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aphorism. 14. Greta Thunburg's autism makes it difficult for her to get her message across. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite A) Figurative language. B) Imagery. C) Hyperbole. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 16. Which fallacy is used to attack a person's character A) Hasty generalization. B) To man. C) Red herring. D) False authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To man. 17. Powerful you have become. The dark side Isense in you. A) Anastrophe. B) Metaphor. C) Juxtaposition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anastrophe. 18. Two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax but reverse the order of the words and rhythm can change; may only repeat the structure, not necessarily the same words; two clauses are opposite in meaning A) Chiasmus. B) Compound-complex. C) Concession. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmus. 19. A writer's distinctive use of langauge A) Syntax. B) Denotation. C) Voice. D) Loose sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Voice. 20. The repetition and aligning of components of a sentence so that they follow a similar construction or pattern A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Tricolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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