This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 151 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 151 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Call to Action is ..... A) Asking/encouraging your audience to do something. B) A video game. C) A movie franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence. D) An argument using a speaker's authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asking/encouraging your audience to do something. 2. ARISTOTLE A) An imaginary audience consisting of all humanity. B) Persuasive appeal from emotion (yours, the audience's, or someone else's). C) Statement of Facts. Telling the story. D) Ancient Greek philosopher, 4th century BC. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ancient Greek philosopher, 4th century BC. 3. "Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children." The predominant rhetorical device used her is ..... A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Anaphora. D) Extended metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 4. Define requirement A) The spark or catalyst that moved the speaker to act, usually an event. B) The history of the speech. C) What the speaker is trying to accomplish. D) The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The spark or catalyst that moved the speaker to act, usually an event. 5. Appeals to emotions ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 6. What's the head count? A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 7. The following is an example of which kind of rhetorical device?Anger is a monster waiting to devour happiness. A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 8. If you put together a rhetorical argument and it fails to persuade, you should ..... A) Give up. B) Continue researching for more information. C) Hold your breath and stomp your feet until they agree with you. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continue researching for more information. 9. Syllogism is the use of major and minor premise to reach a conclusion. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. "Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark." A) Repetition. B) Imagery. C) Analogy. D) Restatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Restatement. 11. "the memory of evil willserve as a shield against evil" is an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. "he strives, he acquires, he makes" A) Parallel structure to emphasize the importance of memory. B) Metaphor to compare the young man's actions to the importance of memory. C) Hyperobole to show how the man's actions were just an exaggerations. D) Simile to compare the young man's actions to the importance of memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallel structure to emphasize the importance of memory. 13. Waiting until your mom is in a good mood to ask her for money is an example of: A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weather. 14. Should blogs be considered a credible source to check for truthful material A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 15. "To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world." Thomas Jefferson A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 16. If an author/speaker is appealing to the audience's emotions, they are using A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 17. All of the people that you met in town are very strange. You conclude that everyone in town is very strange. A) Inductive (specific to general). B) Deductive (general to specific). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inductive (specific to general). 18. The green light in The Great Gatsby is an example of what term? A) Tone. B) Personification. C) Symbolism. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 19. This term refers to an argument that appeals to logic A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 20. A personification of the Party and its leader, who is always watching over citizens through telescreens and thought police A) Big Brother. B) Proles. C) Ingsoc. D) Ministry of Love tags1984. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Big Brother. ← 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