This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 156 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 156 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from another work of literature, art, music, or from history A) Alliteration. B) Authority. C) Anaphora. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 2. No one knows exactly what causes tornados, but some scientists believe that when warm air meets cold air, a tornado may form. The reason for this is that the warm air is lighter than the cold air, so it rises up fast and meets different winds moving different directions. Under the right conditions, this can cause a tornado. Though there is still much mystery surrounding tornados, many people believe that when warm moist air meets cool dry air, tornados can result. A) Problem & solution. B) Cause & effect. C) Compare & contrast. D) Chronological. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cause & effect. 3. The repetition of the same group of words at the end of the successive clauses. A) Ethos. B) Claim. C) Diction. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epistrophe. 4. Which is NOT a component of the Rhetorical Situation? A) Subject. B) Opposing View. C) Audience. D) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opposing View. 5. Logos is when you appeal to the audience's emotions A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. What is tone in "SOAPSTONE" ? A) The attitude of the speaker. B) The feelings of the audience. C) The purpose of the speaker. D) The details of the background/experience of the speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The attitude of the speaker. 7. Words that will make you feel strongly about someone or something A) Post Hoc. B) Loaded Words. C) False dilemma. D) Plain Folks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loaded Words. 8. "Cats like milk, therefore snow days are the best days of the year" is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) I am not a follower. C) Litotes. D) Meiosis. E) Missing the point. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I am not a follower. 9. Identify the rhetorical appeal used:He knows his dinosaur fossils; he has been a leading paleontology researcher for 20 years. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 10. Rhetorical Appealpersuading through the character and credibility of the author (ethical) A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 11. What propaganda techniques probably use the rhetorical device of pathos? A) Card Stacking and Bandwagon. B) Fear and Card Stacking. C) Name Calling and Plain folks. D) Fear and Glittering generalities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fear and Glittering generalities. 12. What is the overall goal of a rhetorical analysis essay? A) To explain what the author is talking about. B) To express how the author writes. C) To persuade the audience of an idea. D) To convince the reader . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To express how the author writes. 13. Each part of the rhetorical triangle is a.....Each part of the rhetorical triangle is a..... A) Rhetoric. B) Rhetorical Appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Appeals. 14. Sentence which uses and or another conjunction (with no commas) to separate the items in a series. A) Setting. B) Sarcasm. C) Multi-connector. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multi-connector. 15. The topic of a text A) Occasion. B) Context. C) Subject. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subject. 16. ..... means:repeating a sentence pattern, sometimes the opposite way A) Hyperbole. B) Parallelism. C) Analogy. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 17. The author's tone in this article is ..... A) Neutral and knowledgeable. B) Negative and bias. C) Positive and cheerful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neutral and knowledgeable. 18. "If you are not with us, you are against us" A) Hasty generalization. B) False dilemma (either/or). C) Red herring. D) Faulty causality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False dilemma (either/or). 19. An appeal to logic and reason. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 20. My opponent raises a really good point, but can we even trust him? He just moved here three years ago, and he never walks his dog on a leash. A) To Man. B) Hasty Generalization. C) Bandwagon. D) Slippery Slope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To Man. ← 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