This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 143 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 143 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Voting for me will make you happy. A) Appeal to Pathos. B) Appeal to Ethos. C) Appeal to Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to Pathos. 2. The football team lost the game. A) Declarative. B) Exclamatory. C) Imperative. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Declarative. 3. Which of the following is a synonym for uplifting? A) Dispersion. B) Divination. C) Ascension. D) Allocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ascension. 4. Which of the following is NOT part of the Aristotelian Triad? A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Cosmos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cosmos. 5. What is the purpose of repetition in writing? A) To confuse the reader. B) To add emphasis and organization. C) To make the writing more complex. D) To distract the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To add emphasis and organization. 6. Repeats a similar sentence structure is several phrases in order to persuade the audience A) Anaphora. B) Allusion. C) Parallelism. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 7. A statement that minimizes the significance of something or says less than it means; often used for comedic effect. A) Euphemism. B) Understatement. C) Epistrophe. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 8. The term for using exaggeration for persuasive effect is ..... A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Logos. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 9. Rhetoric is defined as A) (a) the human use of signs symbolically to communicate. B) (b) the human use of symbols to communicate. C) Both a and b. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 10. A statement that seems impossible because the ideas are opposites, but have an element of truth is which of the following rhetorical devices? A) Paradox. B) B. Hyperbole. C) Satire. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 11. "It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this." A) Logos (Logic). B) Ethos (Authority). C) Pathos (Emotion). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos (Authority). 12. No matter what the medium, a text's design affects the way it is received and understood. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. "Based on the dozens of archaeological expeditions I've made all over the world, I am confident that those potsherds are Mesopotamian in origin." A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Diction. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 14. Logos is the appeal of what? A) Emotion. B) Ethnics. C) Logic. D) Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logic. 15. What appeal does the rhetorical device in the following quote from the "9/11" speech refer to? "The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge ..... huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 16. 2 out of 3 dentists agree that Cleanfresh toothpaste is the healthiest toothpaste for growing kids! A) Pathos-emotional appeal. B) Ethos-ethical appeal. C) Logos-logical appeal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos-ethical appeal. 17. Which is a correct in text citation? A) (wiesel 1). B) (Wiesel page 1). C) (Wiesel 1). D) .(Wiesel 1). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) (Wiesel 1). 18. The P in S.O.A.P. stands for ..... A) Practical. B) Practice. C) Patience. D) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Purpose. 19. Logical fallacy in which one assumes that because B comes after A, A caused B. A) Post hoc. B) Red herring. C) Hasty generalization. D) Slippery slope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Post hoc. 20. The writer's intention or goal of the text A) Purpose. B) Tone. C) Ethos. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purpose. ← 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