This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 158 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 158 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Using conjunctions to emphasize rhythm, and therefore emphasize a certain point is called ..... A) Multi-connector. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multi-connector. 2. A secondary meaning of a word in addition to the dictionary definition. A) Repetition. B) Bias. C) Connotation. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 3. "Imperative" is another word for ..... A) A question. B) Power. C) Repetition. D) A command. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A command. 4. The main purpose of emotional reasoning is to make people think. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. Philosophical discipline about the laws of thought-it is an auxiliary science A) Ethics. B) Logic. C) Syntax. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logic. 6. Being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation A) Self-disparagement. B) Work. C) Emancipation. D) Rice sansae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emancipation. 7. The tortoise and the hare keep moving-hidden meaning A) Allegory. B) Anecdote. C) Antithesis. D) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 8. One way to incorporate pathos into your own speech is to ..... A) Use loaded words and description in your argument. B) Include research and credible websites. C) Interview people to use as proof. D) Punch them in the stomach. That'll make 'em feel something for sure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use loaded words and description in your argument. 9. Using direct opposites or two contrasting ideas to communicate an idea, usually in parallel structure A) Diction. B) Antithesis. C) Euphemism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 10. In one of Aesop's fables, four animals go hunting thinking that they will split their prize equally, but the lion, the most powerful animal, takes more than the other members of the group. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? My older brother takes the lion's share of the space in our bedroom. A) An equal amount. B) A tiny bit. C) An even split. D) The largest amount. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The largest amount. 11. Techniques writers and speakers use to make their argument more persuasive. A) Target Audience. B) Rhetoric. C) Bandwagon. D) Rhetorical Devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Devices. 12. What is the role of ethos in persuasion? A) Ethos is the use of fear and intimidation in persuasion. B) Ethos is the credibility or ethical appeal of the speaker or writer in persuasion. C) Ethos is the use of logic and reasoning in persuasion. D) Ethos is the emotional appeal of the speaker or writer in persuasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos is the credibility or ethical appeal of the speaker or writer in persuasion. 13. Which is NOT one of the classical rhetorical appeals? A) Pathos. B) Let's go. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Let's go. 14. Ethos definition A) The ethical appeal is based on the credibility and reliability or authority of the writer. B) The emotional appeal; appeals to an audience's needs, values, and emotional sensibilities. C) Uses facts, logic, organization, statistics, data, and/or more to convince. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ethical appeal is based on the credibility and reliability or authority of the writer. 15. YOUR ANSWER TO #4 A) F. B) G. C) H. D) J. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) H. 16. An ethical appeal to establish credibility, trust, and morals.Choose the rhetorical appeal that best fits the definition above. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 17. The scenes in which Frederick Douglass describes being separated from his mother, his aunt getting whipped, and Mr. Covey beating him most heavily rely on which rhetorical appeal for Douglass' argument against slavery? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 18. What is the following an example of:Hundreds of thousands of animals are being tortured and killed every year, and for what? So that we can modernize our beauty products and overstock our grocery stores? A) Appeal to emotion. B) Appeal to shared beliefs. C) Appeal to logic. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to emotion. 19. Used to indicate a sudden break in thought, to set off parenthetical material A) Colon. B) Semicolon. C) Dash. D) Parenthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dash. 20. The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative. A) Foreshadowing. B) Climax. C) Flashback. D) Dilemma. 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