This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 153 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 153 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What type of irony is this? Romeo and Juliet are secretly married, but Juliet's parents insist that she should marry Paris. Juliet tries to fake her death in order to run off with Romeo, but, being a typical teenager, neglects to tell Romeo about her plan. She becomes unconscious after drinking a sleeping potion given to her by the apothecary. When Romeo discovers Juliet, he thinks that she is dead, not knowing that she is merely unconscious. He consumes poison and kills himself. A) Situational. B) Dramatic. C) Verbal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic. 2. What is the immediate need to deliver the message? A) Context. B) Purpose. C) Requirement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Requirement. 3. Using an expert: A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 4. What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:"Fail to prepare and you prepare to fail." A) Epistrophe. B) Parallelism. C) Apposition. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antimetabole. 5. Rhetorical Devicea brief reference to a famous person or event ..... often from literature, mythology, history, or the Bible A) Allusion. B) Understatement. C) Euphemism. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 6. "All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree." -Albert Einstien A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 7. Anecdotes, Facts, quotes are all examples of..... A) Statement. B) Argument. C) Evidence. D) Claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evidence. 8. Epideictic rhetoric is ..... A) Legal. B) Political. C) Celebratory. D) Inductive. E) Deductive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Celebratory. 9. An author's individual word choice and syntax create the author's individual ..... A) Style. B) Slanting. C) Point of view. D) Coherence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Style. 10. "Those who attack our union often say it's not really a union. It's something else, a social movement, a civil rights movement-it's something dangerous." Which rhetoric tool is this? A) Parallel structure. B) Appeal to audience's morals. C) Appeal to audience's feelings. D) Considering the counterclaim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Considering the counterclaim. 11. When considering this element of the S.O.A.P.S.Tone we should consider background information like ethnicity, age, gender, occupation, life experience, etc. A) Audience. B) Occasion. C) Speaker. D) Purpose. E) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 12. I suppose that getting into a fistfight with the principal was a little bit out of line. This is an example of A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Analogy. D) Parallel Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understatement. 13. Using emotion to persuade (guilt, humor, pride, etc.) A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 14. Which rhetorical appeal relies on citing experts or credible sources? A) Weather. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 15. How does Granholm end her speech "Remembering Rosa Parks" ? A) With a song. B) With a poem. C) With a salute. D) With a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With a salute. 16. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 17. Primary Audience A) The target or intended audience. B) Broader person or group that has some connection to target audience. C) What the speaker wants the audience to do after receiving the message. D) The broadest and largest group that has no connection to the intended audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The target or intended audience. 18. An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward. Rather than ignoring it, a strong writer will usually address it through the process of concession and rebuttal. A) Counterargument. B) Rhetoric. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Counterargument. 19. Comparison without like or as A) Hyperbole. B) Understatement. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 20. My daughter moved out on her own. I'm not there to protect her. I worried, but now she has a Safe House home security system and I know she's safe. A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. ← 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