This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 145 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 145 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ethos establishesEl ethos establece ..... A) Compassion. B) Credibility. C) Passion. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Credibility. 2. Comparison between something familiar and something unfamiliar for the purpose of illuminating or dramatizing the unfamiliar. A) Metaphor. B) Analogy. C) Juxtaposition. D) Antiphrasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 3. What does the "A" in SOAPSTONE stand for? A) Art. B) Apply. C) Audience. D) Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audience. 4. What's the difference between a metaphor and a simile? A) A metaphor uses 'like' or 'as' to compare, while similes don't. B) A simile uses 'like' or 'as' to compare, while metaphors don't. C) A simile uses 'like' to compare, while metaphors use 'as' to compare. D) A metaphor uses 'like' to compare, while similes use 'as' to compare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A simile uses 'like' or 'as' to compare, while metaphors don't. 5. The art of speaking or writing effectively:such as the study of principles and rules of composition formulated by critics of ancient times; the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion A) Argument. B) Rhetoric. C) Persuasion. D) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 6. Commands, requests, or instructs A) Declarative. B) Imperative. C) Exclamatory. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imperative. 7. We're certain that the investigation will reveal years of cheating behind the scenes. A) Rhetorical definition. B) Rhetorical explanation. C) Truth surrogate. D) Rhetorical analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Truth surrogate. 8. Which of the following is an example of pathos? A) Appeal to Morality. B) Appeal to Emotion. C) Appeal to Credibility. D) Appeal to Logic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to Emotion. 9. A student is asked to write a three-to five-page report for a geology course. The assignment asks the student to examine a specific problem related to the environment. Which of the following topics should the student choose? A) The dangers of genetically modified crops. B) The dangers of pollution. C) Great vacation spots. D) Deciduous forest animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The dangers of genetically modified crops. 10. The first visitor is the Ghost of Christmas ..... This ghost shows Scrooge as his younger self at school with Fan, and at Fezziwig's. A) Yet to Come. B) Present. C) Past. D) Gauze. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Past. 11. Intentionally using a word or phrase for effect, two or more times in a speech or written work. A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Allusion. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 12. The time and place the text was written or spoken A) Context. B) Text. C) Occasion. D) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occasion. 13. What are rhetorical devices used for? A) To enhance communication and make messages more persuasive and impactful. B) To confuse the audience and make messages less clear. C) To entertain the audience and make messages more enjoyable. D) To provide factual information and make messages more informative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To enhance communication and make messages more persuasive and impactful. 14. The art of using language effectively and persuasively. A) Rhetorical Devices. B) Persuasion. C) Evidence. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 15. It does not follow A) A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it. B) A method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics. C) Occurs when the writer assumes that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident. D) To describe by specifying the characteristics or qualities of; characterize. E) When a speaker introduces an irrelevant issue or piece of evidence to divert attention from the subject of the speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it. 16. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial justice to the solid rock of brotherhood. A) Antithesis. B) Allusion. C) Extended metaphor. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 17. "What is money?Money is what makes a man act funnyMoney is the root of all evilMoney'll make them same friends come back aroundSwearing that they was always down" -Eminem A) Allusion. B) Anaphora. C) Anecdote. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 18. What is the difference between a Anaphora and a Epistrophe A) Anaphora come at the start of a line while epistrophe come at end of a line. B) Epistrophe come at the start of a line while anaphora come at end of a line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora come at the start of a line while epistrophe come at end of a line. 19. (You shoot me down, but I won't fall.) I am titanium A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 20. The group of people that writer or speaker has in mind as a readership or audience. A) Rhetorical device. B) Target audience. C) Appeal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Target audience. ← 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