This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 137 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 137 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If you never wear shoes, it is ..... that you will injure your foot. A) Inevitable. B) Rhetoric. C) Ingenious. D) Enfranchised. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inevitable. 2. A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Juxtaposition. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 3. The first shock came in the shape of the Rowlatt Act, 8 a law designed to rob the people of all real freedom. I felt called upon to lead an intensive agitation against it. A) Pathos. B) Weather. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 4. Which color is associated with royalty because it is so rare/expensive? A) Blue. B) Red. C) Purple. D) Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purple. 5. What is the purpose of rhetoric? A) To persuade, inform, or entertain an audience. B) To bore the audience. C) To confuse and mislead the audience. D) To ignore the audience's needs and interests. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To persuade, inform, or entertain an audience. 6. Rhetorical devices weaken an argument and make them invalid. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 7. Who is the father of rhetoric? A) Caesar. B) Frederick Douglas. C) Confucius. D) Aristotle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aristotle. 8. Which kind of figurative language is used in the sentence below? Olivia, your room is a pig sty. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration tags4L5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. What is "Closing by Return?" A) The practise of ending a long paragraph or one section of an essay by returning to an image, an idea, or a statement that occurs in the beginning. B) Establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together orjuxtaposing them, often in parallel structure. C) Not the thing or idea the word stands for (denotation), but the attitudes, feelings andemotions aroused by the word. D) Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The practise of ending a long paragraph or one section of an essay by returning to an image, an idea, or a statement that occurs in the beginning. 10. The Oval Office issued a statement condemning the terrorist attack. A) Metonymy. B) Chiasmus. C) Multi-connector. D) Malapropism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 11. Here is an excerpt from Audre Lorde's essay "The Master's Tool's Will Never Dismantle the Master's House"Those of us who stand outside the circle of [society's] definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference ..... those of us who are poor, ..... who are Black, who are older ..... know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.Which rhetorical choice is evident in this excerpt? A) Analogy. B) Shift in tone. C) Call to action. D) Appeal to ethics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 12. "to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood." (MLK, Jr.) A) Paradox. B) Metaphor. C) Epiphora. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. When Martin Luther King Junior says, "So let freedom ring from the hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the ..... " he is using ..... A) Alliteration. B) Epistrophe. C) Anaphora. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 14. "I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle." What is the purpose of the characterization? A) The characterization is used to describe the weaknesses of the enemy. B) The characterization is used to demonstrate the sacrifices of the women at home. C) The characterization is used to instill the troops with confidence and remind them of their strengths. D) The characterization is used to contrast their abilities with soldiers of the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The characterization is used to instill the troops with confidence and remind them of their strengths. 15. "Bear with me;My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me." is an example of Antony's use of: A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 16. The following is an example of what term ..... The tree danced in the wind. A) Point of view. B) Personification. C) Paradox. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 17. Pick the sentence with the correct commas. A) Although Chris is ready for christmas, it is only February. B) Although, Chris is ready for Christmas is only February. C) Although, Chris is ready for Christmas, it is only February. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Although Chris is ready for christmas, it is only February. 18. The fat comedian is as plump as a pillow. A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 19. Which of the following would be a technique that implements logos? A) Using pictures of a hurt child. B) Including research. C) Having someone credible who agrees with you. D) Making people laugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Including research. 20. Appealing to one's emotions A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. ← 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