This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 147 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 147 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms are linked A) Jargon. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 2. "A little pain never hurt anyone." A) Euphemism. B) Oxymoron. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 3. According to Aristotle's division, the sciences ETHICS, ECONOMICS and POLITICS belong A) THEORETICAL SCIENCES. B) POETIC SCIENCES. C) PRACTICAL SCIENCES. D) SOCIAL SCIENCES. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) PRACTICAL SCIENCES. 4. This term refers to the character and credibility an author or source has A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 5. What rhetorical appeal is primarily being used in this ad? A) Ethos (appeal to credibility). B) Pathos (appeal to emotion). C) Logos (appeal to logic). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos (appeal to emotion). 6. Which rebuttal best weakens the counterclaim that music is distracting? A) Music motivates students. B) Music reduces stress. C) Lyrics in music can cause students to lose focus. D) Not all music is distracting, in fact, some genres are proven to enhance learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not all music is distracting, in fact, some genres are proven to enhance learning. 7. Word that means the roughly same thing A) Synonym. B) Connotation. C) Etymology. D) Context clue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonym. 8. Reference to something which is presumably commonly known A) Allegory. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 9. What are the following words an example of? "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence ..... " Winston Churchill A) Personification. B) Similarly. C) Anaphora. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 10. Toothies toothpaste gets rid of 98% of plaque. A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 11. Persuasive Techniques Imagery: A) A professional that knows what they are talking about. B) A brief story used to make a larger point. C) Describing something vividly. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Describing something vividly. 12. Correct this sentence:I came; I saw; I have conquered. A) I came; I saw; I conquered. B) I came; I have seen; I have conquered. C) Come see me conquer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I came; I saw; I conquered. 13. You are failing us. A) Shock tactics. B) Synthetic personalisation. C) Tripling. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synthetic personalisation. 14. What kind of figurative language is this:The train screamed down the tracks. A) Irony. B) Metaphors. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. What is a rhetorical device? A) A technique of using language effectively and persuasively. B) A technique of using language to confuse the reader or listener. C) A technique of using language to entertain the reader or listener. D) A technique of using language to inform the reader or listener. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A technique of using language effectively and persuasively. 16. Almost every ambitious young man and woman eventually ..... to admit defeat. A) Has. B) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has. 17. "Wow, I hope those two sports' rivals being in the same room is more like Grant and Robert E. Lee at Appomattox than the First Triumvirate with Caesar Pompey and Crassus." A) Antistrophe. B) Diacope. C) Litotes. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 18. "Time is a thief that steals our youth."What rhetorical deceive is used? A) Personification. B) Antithesis. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 19. Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning A) Setting. B) Context/Occasion. C) Exposition. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Context/Occasion. 20. State something in a different way A) Repetition. B) Restatement. C) Parallelism. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restatement. ← 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