This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 149 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 149 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The image is an example of what structure? A) Sequential. B) Problem-Solution. C) Cause-Effect. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Problem-Solution. 2. The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, these give a work a conversational, familiar tone. In writing, these expressions include local or regional dialects. A) Euphemisms. B) Dialects. C) Colloquialisms. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colloquialisms. 3. The Cast of Characters:Breakfast Sausage, Flour, Milk, Salt, Pepper, and Biscuits. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 4. Evaluation of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices; classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors A) Bildungsroman. B) Style. C) Narrative. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Style. 5. A deductive system of formal logic that presents a "major" and "minor" premise that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. EXAMPLE:Major premise:All men are mortal Minor premise:Socrates is a man. Conclusion:Therefore, Socrates is mortal. The conclusion is valid only if each of the two premises is valid. A) Deductive reasoning. B) Inductive reasoning. C) Syllogism. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syllogism. 6. Greek word meaning "suffering" or "experience" . A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 7. This appeal includes using a counterargument then discrediting it. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) All three. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 8. ..... refers to the mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel. A) Mood. B) Attitude. C) Setting. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 9. A long narrative poem with a hero (Beowulf) A) Epic. B) Tragedy. C) Ode. D) None Listed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic. 10. "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." -Martin Luther King, Jr.This is an example of ..... A) Restatement. B) Antithesis. C) Anaphora. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 11. What was King's rebuttal. A) There are just and unjust laws. B) All laws should be followed. C) All laws should be broken. D) Everyone should break the law. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There are just and unjust laws. 12. Compliance with rules or standards A) Control. B) Oppression. C) Resistance. D) Conformity tags1984Real Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conformity tags1984Real Life. 13. Taps into people's desire to belong. A) Anecdote. B) Bandwagon. C) Rhetoric. D) Stereotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bandwagon. 14. In the sentence "The deafening silence filled the room, " what figure of speech is being used? A) Anaphora. B) Oxymoron. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 15. The attitude of the author toward a subject A) Diction. B) Tone. C) Paradox. D) Imagery. E) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 16. Citation of information from people recognized for their special knowledge of a subject for the purpose of strengthening a speaker's or writer's argument A) Logical reasoning. B) Appeal to pride. C) Appeal to fear. D) Appeal to authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appeal to authority. 17. The writer's attempt to convince his reader to agree with him or her. A) Argumentation. B) Coherence. C) Figurative language. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Argumentation. 18. Which of the following is an example of an oxymoron? A) We are never alone. B) Alone Together. C) Being alone is the greatest thing ever!. D) Men can't live on bread alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alone Together. 19. "They might dismiss us and say that we are too young to understand. But I understand pain. I get grief. I see it in the eyes of the families mourning for those they lost. I hear it in the wails of the loved ones who had to bury one of their own because grown men and women won't listen to common sense and do the bare minimum." Which of the following best answers the P in SOAPSTone? A) To scold the adults for being stubborn. B) To encourage the youth to advocate for safety practices during this pandemic. C) To persuade the listeners to listen to the youth. D) To convince Americans to do the bare minimum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To encourage the youth to advocate for safety practices during this pandemic. 20. Refers to the window of opportunity during which something could happen; commonly translated as the right or opportune moment of a speech or 'the supreme moment' A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weather. ← 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