This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 16 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the FIRST S stand for in SOAPSTone? A) Speaker. B) Subject. C) Superstition. D) Supposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 2. Why do you use logos, ethos, and pathos? A) To learn how to fly a plane. B) To learn more about a subject. C) Change the point of view of others and motivate others to take action. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Change the point of view of others and motivate others to take action. 3. Using different words that have the same meaning in an argument (talking in circles) A) Hasty generalization. B) Glittering generalities. C) Fear tactics. D) Circular reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Circular reasoning. 4. A device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another often creating an effect of surprise and wit A) Irony. B) Juxtaposition. C) Jargon. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juxtaposition. 5. In the formula "A = C + E + R, " E stands for A) Elaboration. B) Explanation. C) Equivocation. D) Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evidence. 6. Use a comma to set off an appositive from the rest of the sentence. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase which tells more information about the noun before it. A) Ms. Pratt, the principal, spoke about grades. B) Our outing was fun, but we were glad to return. C) No, I have not seen your books. D) Food, toys, clothes, and silverware were sold there. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ms. Pratt, the principal, spoke about grades. 7. How can a speaker provoke emotion in an audience? A) Emotive language. B) Emotionally affecting anecdotes. C) Body language. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. Which rhetorical appeal is being used in the sentence below? A dog shelter displays sad photos of dogs in cages to request donations. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 9. "You will never be satisfied in life if you don't seize this opportunity. Do you really want to live the rest of your years regretting, wondering what would have happened if you just jumped when you had the chance? Don't you want to be happy?" A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 10. ..... reasoning is making an inference based on widely accepted facts or premises. A) Exposition. B) Fallacy. C) Deductive. D) Inductive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deductive. 11. What is the term for a category of artistic composition, as in film or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content? A) Genre. B) Dialect. C) Colloquialism. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genre. 12. The following is an example of which kind of rhetorical device? How many people die from lung cancer each year? About 157, 423 people die from lung cancer each year. A) Rhetorical question. B) Oxymoron. C) Hypophora. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypophora. 13. Sock:Foot as Gloves:Hand, is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 14. Two phrases that contain similar grammatical construction are examples of A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical questions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 15. Arguments urging you to follow what everyone else is doing is called ..... A) Bandwagon. B) Straw man. C) Slippery slope. D) Either/Or. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bandwagon. 16. The White House will be announcing the decision around noon today. A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 17. When it's raining outside, if I say "It's beautiful out!!!" the following rhetorical choice is used: A) Sarcastic Tone. B) Irony. C) All of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 18. 13 Today Carnegie Hall ..... A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C. 19. What device is used in the following example: "Investing in renewable energy is like farming. Renewable energy may take some time for it to become profitable, but when it does the harvest will be well worth the wait." A) Anaphora. B) Simile. C) Addressing the audience. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 20. Which tribe had 3 wars to defend their land? A) Cherokee. B) Seminoles. C) Chickasaws. D) The Creeks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seminoles. ← 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