This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 14 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Inversion of the natural or usual word order is ..... A) Anastrophe. B) Pun. C) Allusion. D) Folding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anastrophe. 2. Use of words or grammatical construction peculiar to a given language, or an expression that cannot be translated literally into a second language. A) Archetype. B) Cliche. C) Idiom. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 3. "By donating only fifty cents a day, you can help give a child clean drinking water." ..... Which type of appeal is being used here? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 4. Which is an example of a weaseler? A) "perhaps". B) "of course". C) "definitely". D) "let's be for real". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "perhaps". 5. Credible speakers work to build this with their audiences. A) Intelligence. B) Humor. C) Appreciation. D) Common ground. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Common ground. 6. Saying something in a less offensive way (often using more restrained terms A) Understatement. B) Euphemism. C) Hyperbole. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 7. Which of the following will NEVER be an answer for who the intended audience is: A) Young people and teenagers. B) Little kids and their parents. C) Everyone and everybody. D) Small businesses that need to mail a lot of packages. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Everyone and everybody. 8. The blue car drove swiftly down the winding road during a hurricane. The high winds blew the car from side to side, but it safely made it to the storm shelter. A) Description. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Description. 9. Natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words A) Inference. B) Irony. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 10. The speaker or writer's general topic or content A) Occasion. B) Audience. C) Purpose. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subject. 11. The balanced arrangement of phrases and sentences so that they have similar constructions and are of equal importance; the intention is to present ideas in a coordinated way in order to reflect that they have equal status A) Paradox. B) Parallelism. C) Pathos. D) Multi-connectors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 12. Grammatical arrangement of words. Sentence structure. A) Diction. B) Syntax. C) Theme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 13. Zombies are the living dead. A) Not an oxymoron. B) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 14. Subject and purpose are the same thing: A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. Using the same word or phrase over and over again A) Repetition. B) Litotes. C) Invective. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 16. " ..... Let this be the last time that a classroom remains empty.Let this be the last time that a girl is told education is a crime and not a right ..... " is an example of what rhetoric tool? A) Facts and statistics. B) Parallel structure. C) Emotionally-charged language. D) Considering counterclaim. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallel structure. 17. The intentional use of words that sound like their meaning. A) Consonance. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 18. This is a picture perfect portrait of a power play A) Assonance. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 19. Combines anaphora and epistrophe in which the first and last word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence are repeated in one or more successive phrases, clauses, or sentences; repetition of the first and last words in a clause over successive clauses A) Symploce. B) Repetition. C) Conjugation. D) Concession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symploce. 20. What is the following statement an example of? "The data is perfectly clear:this investment has consistently turned a profit year-over-year, even in spite of market declines in other areas." A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. ← 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