This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 135 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 135 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Rhetoric is the art of writing or speaking with the goal of persuading the listener to consider a topic in a specific way. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. Which rhetorical device provides logic or evidence to the speech? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 3. Writing used to prove a point or get the audience to take action. A) Argumentation. B) Description. C) Narration. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Argumentation. 4. Which type of literary forms were popular? A) Speeches. B) Novels. C) Scripts. D) Fairy Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speeches. 5. To retell the events or details of a passage or text in a concise or brief form is a ..... A) Quote. B) Summary. C) Paraphrase. D) Outline. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Summary. 6. Match the technique to the appropriate appeal:certificate/degree A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 7. I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is an example of what rhetorical device? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Oxymoron. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 8. You can have an argument without a speaker. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. Identify the rhetorical appeal used:If you don't study you will fail the test. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 10. The emotions, associations and connections people have about words is called ..... A) Denotations. B) Connotations. C) Zeugma. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotations. 11. What is a text? A) Only books. B) Cultural products that can be studied, not simply consumed. C) Only essays. D) Cultural products that can be consumed, not studied. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cultural products that can be studied, not simply consumed. 12. "They might dismiss us and say that we are too young to understand. But I understand pain. I get grief. I see it in the eyes of the families mourning for those they lost. I hear it in the wails of the loved ones who had to bury one of their own because grown men and women won't listen to common sense and do the bare minimum." Which of the following answers the first S in SOAPSTone succinctly? A) Abigail Dunst. B) Abigail Dunst, a high school sophomore and a social media influencer. C) Abigail Dunst, a high school sophomore. D) Abigail Dunst, a high school sophomore, a social media influencer and a collector of Yu Gi Oh! cards. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abigail Dunst, a high school sophomore and a social media influencer. 13. Developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work A) Extended metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extended metaphor. 14. The flower was as blue as the sky. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. Putting another person down, especially among politicians A) Name-calling. B) Scapegoat. C) Bandwagon. D) Snob appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Name-calling. 16. Best reasoning for why censorship of propaganda is a dangerous idea A) The freedom of expression is a human right that should only be restricted in truly exceptional circumstances. B) People will protest for their opinions and will fight to be heard. C) It is not dangerous. D) No new ideas will be introduced and it causes a society that only thinks one way. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The freedom of expression is a human right that should only be restricted in truly exceptional circumstances. 17. What is a metonymy? A) DOES NOT say actual word, but uses alternative that represents it. B) Using the same word. C) Compares two completely different things. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) DOES NOT say actual word, but uses alternative that represents it. 18. Last year, Malala Fund and the World Bank published research showing that if all girls completed secondary school, they could add up to $ 30 trillion to the global economy.This is an appeal to ..... A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 19. The receivers of the message or discourse A) Requirement. B) Ethos, pathos, and logos. C) Rhetoric. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Audience. 20. The following is an example of what device? She had a Mona Lisa smile. A) Hypophora. B) Allusion. C) Repetition. D) Weather. 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