This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 136 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 136 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An argument that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue. A) Straw man argument. B) False causation. C) Red herring. D) Hasty generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red herring. 2. How should you arrange the arguments of your refutation? A) Begin with your opponent's weakest argument and work down to the strongest. B) Sandwich their weak arguments between two of their strong arguments. C) Start with their strongest argument and work down to their weakest. D) Address only their weak arguments. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Start with their strongest argument and work down to their weakest. 3. What is the definition of the logical fallacy, circular argument? A) A conclusion based on the thought that if something happens, it will cause a ripple of other effects. B) A conclusion based on insufficient or biased evidence. C) A conclusion that if something happened after an event, the event must have caused it. D) A conclusion that restates the argument rather than actually proving it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A conclusion that restates the argument rather than actually proving it. 4. The duplication, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern A) Rhetorical Modes. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Pedantic. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 5. When examining an argument, this is where we focus on what emotions the speaker/author wants his/her audience to feel in order to move the audience to action. A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 6. Verbal irony but more hurtful A) Pun. B) Sarcasm. C) Allusion. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarcasm. 7. You are easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart. A) Antithesis. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 8. Having a famous person or someone who has used a product endorse it; this person is NOT usually an expert on the product A) Expert testimony. B) Testimonial. C) Fallacies. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Testimonial. 9. "You know me-I've taught Sunday School at your church for years, babysat your children, and served as a playground director for many summers." A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 10. Sit still.Don't move.Stay.The above is an example of: A) Parallelism. B) Restatement. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restatement. 11. Exaggerated statements of claimsThat movie was a million hours long. A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 12. What is the central idea or message of a work? A) Theme. B) Thesis. C) Rhetoric. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 13. An author's specific choice of words A) Diction. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 14. Gardening is the perfect hobby for those who need ..... from hectic life. A) Respite. B) Torpor. C) Infamy. D) Specter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Respite. 15. Expressions, such as similes, metaphors, and personification, that make imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations. A) Foreshadowing. B) Imagery. C) Figures of Speech. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figures of Speech. 16. Excuse me! Did you just jump in the line right in front of me? A) Antithesis. B) Rhetorical question. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 17. Which of the following is an example of a Euphemism? A) Martin Luther King's "I had a dream" inspired my dream. B) I heard a loud " Boom ". C) My grandpa " passed away ". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My grandpa " passed away ". 18. Hypophoric questions are questions that A) Can be answered with "yes" or "no.". B) Are intended for the audience to have a detailed answer. C) The author asks but then provides the answer. D) Have an implied answer. No answer is actually expected. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The author asks but then provides the answer. 19. A frequently recurring character, incident, or concept in a work of literature A) Imagery. B) Elegy. C) Archetype. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Motif. 20. "In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way." When Rep.Lewis discusses his own experience this is A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. 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