This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 141 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 141 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Mrs. Herrera likes the color black. This statement is a A) Fact. B) Opinion. C) Generalization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fact. 2. A figure of speech thatgives human-like characteristics to an abstract idea or non-human thingis called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. A linguistic and literary device, in spoken or written form, in which real meaning is concealed or contradicted A) Verbal irony. B) Irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) Situational irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 4. The use of a word or phrase that is less expressive or direct but considered less distasteful or offensive than another. A) Connotative Diction. B) Details. C) Euphemism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 5. A verse with no rhyme or meter (structure) A) Free Verse. B) Blank Verse. C) Epigram. D) None listed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. 6. What is the definition of rhetorical question? A) Using language effectively and persuasively in writing or speaking. B) Literal meaning of a word or phrase (the dictionary definition). C) Questions that do not require an answer. D) The emotions or feelings that a word or phrase creates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Questions that do not require an answer. 7. My love is like a red, red rose-Robert BurnsThis sentence is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Folding. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 8. What does Michael J. Fox want to persuade the senators to do? A) Increase funding for Parkinson's research. B) Forget that he is a celebrity. C) Feel sorry for people with neurological disorders. D) Double the funding for the National Institutes of Health. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increase funding for Parkinson's research. 9. I've not eaten meat for 8 years, and I'm fit and healthy; you can't argue that vegetarianism is always unhealthy. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 10. An appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 11. Define:Eponym A) Refers to a person or thing after which something else is named. B) A figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refers to a person or thing after which something else is named. 12. Biases are not really just right or wrong until they become A) A-stereotypes. B) B-prejudices. C) Both a and b. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 13. One of the strongest elements of Trump's manner of speaking is that he doesn't repeat himself. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. When a speaker indicates that the listener is part of a group, he's using A) Bandwagon. B) Testimonial. C) Card stacking. D) Name Calling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bandwagon. 15. One kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another A) Synesthesia. B) Symbol. C) Assonance. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synesthesia. 16. Tiger Woods endorses Nike. A) Appeal to Pathos. B) Appeal to Ethos. C) Appeal to Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to Ethos. 17. Fitting one's speech to the context and audience is know known as ..... A) Decadence. B) Lexis. C) Pathos. D) Decorum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decorum. 18. Henrietta Lacks' family got ..... for medicine made from her cells. A) $ 0.00. B) $ 1, 000. C) $ 10, 000. D) $ 3, 000, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $ 0.00. 19. An attempt to persuade the audience to accept the conclusion ..... by predicting (or causing) unpleasant consequences if it is not accepted A) False Analogy. B) Snob Appeal. C) Hasty Generalization. D) Circular Reasoning/ Begging the Question (Unsupported Assertion). E) Appeal to Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Appeal to Fear. 20. Pick the term that matches the definition:an urgent need or demand, a spark A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Context. D) Requirement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Requirement. ← 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