This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 157 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 157 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule A) Sarcasm. B) Allegory. C) Satire. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. 2. What rhetorical appeal is used?Professor Xavier of M.I.T finds no evidence automation causes job losses. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 3. CICERO'S canons of rhetoric are 5. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Winston Churchill says the word "victory" throughout the speech. What rhetorical strategy does he use with this word? A) Question and answer. B) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 5. The main purpose of the first paragraph is to A) Encourage members of the audience to communicate with their friends and families. B) Provide specific examples of ways in which the course of action the author advocates improved her quality of life. C) Help the audience understand her experiences by using personal anecdotes. D) Inspire other deaf students to persevere through the hardships they will encounter on their own journeys . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Provide specific examples of ways in which the course of action the author advocates improved her quality of life. 6. Literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack. A) Sarsam. B) Rhetorical question. C) Satire. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. 7. ("doubling back") the rhetorical repetition of one or several words; specifically, repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next. A) Parallelism. B) Anaphora. C) Folding. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folding. 8. "You know me-I've taught Sunday School at your church for years, babysat your children, and served as a playground director for many summers-so you know I can run your preschool." What rhetorical tool is being used? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 9. "I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of what? A) Antanago bottom. B) Anaphora. C) Antimetabole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 10. Antithesis is ..... A) A contrast or opposition of ideas. B) An exaggeration or over-statement. C) Comparison of two unlike things. D) Opposite of a claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A contrast or opposition of ideas. 11. A text that distorts or exaggerates distinctive features of the original text. A) Parody. B) Personification. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parody. 12. "I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Sensory Language. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 13. Words such as "ain't" and "gonna" are examples of ....., as they are not used widely throughout English-speaking populations. A) Multi-connectors. B) Colloquialism. C) Pun. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Colloquialism. 14. Harsh or grating sounds that do not go together A) Euphony. B) Diction. C) Consonance. D) Dissonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dissonance. 15. The recurring image of a veil is an example of a A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) A motive. D) A motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A motif. 16. Direct address A) A point-by-point comparison of two things that are alike in some respect. B) Talking directly to the reader, often using the pronoun you. C) The placement of two or more things side by side to show their similarities and/or differences. D) A question that has such an obvious answer that it requires no reply. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Talking directly to the reader, often using the pronoun you. 17. The concept of rhetoric was created by which of the following people: A) Ernest Hemingway. B) J.D. Salinger. C) Aristotle. D) Socrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aristotle. 18. A man from another country counted all the car accidents. He found out that cars painted pink or any light hade seem to be safer. The light colors are more easily seen. Cars of two or three different colors may be even safer. What is the main idea? A) Which color cars are safest. B) How to paint a car. C) What colors can't be seen. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Which color cars are safest. 19. Juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced/parallel words A) Unrelated. B) Apostrophe. C) Antithesis. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 20. A word or phrase that links different ideas A) Transition. B) Pathos. C) Anaphora. D) Clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transition. ← 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