This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 160 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 160 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is Zuegma? A) Includes several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage (or yokingtogether) of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech. The main benefit of the linking isthat it shows relationships between ideas and actions more clearly. B) Is a comparison between two different things that resemble each other in at least one way.In formal prose the simile is a device both of art and explanation, comparing an unfamiliarthing to some familiar thing (an object, event, process, etc.) known to the reader. It generallyuses "like" or "as" . C) A person, place or thing that exists both in its own right as something real and tangible andalso as something greater than itself-an attitude, a belief, a quality, a value. D) A form of metaphor which in mention a part signifies the whole, or the whole symbolizes thepart (often not distinguished from metonymy). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Includes several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage (or yokingtogether) of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech. The main benefit of the linking isthat it shows relationships between ideas and actions more clearly. 2. A 3-part syllogism is a type of A) Deductive reasoning. B) Inductive reasoning. C) Jim Crow law. D) Faulty logic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deductive reasoning. 3. Contrasting ideas are expressed in agrammatically balanced statement. A) Antithesis. B) Repetition. C) Rhetorical question. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 4. When a celebrity endorses a product A) Bandwagon. B) Misuse of statistics. C) Loaded words. D) Testimonial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Testimonial. 5. "We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you." -Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 6. One method to create logos is A) Citing facts/statistics. B) Giving the speech at the right time to the right people. C) Sounding fair/unbiased. D) Demonstrating the speaker is a good person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Citing facts/statistics. 7. A fallacy where the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence. A) Circular reasoning. B) Objective. C) Lyrical evidence. D) Backing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Circular reasoning. 8. A reference to another work that is well known within popular culture A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Appeal to shared beliefs/values. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 9. What is the art of persuasion through speaking and writing? A) Argument. B) Bias. C) Conversation. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 10. An indirect word substituted for one considered to be too harsh A) Hyperbole. B) Euphemism. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 11. Which kind of rhetoric would try to use a professor or a writer to convince a group of people? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 12. Identify the rhetorical device in the following sentence: " ..... we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing ..... " A) Personal involvement. B) Repetition. C) Hyperbole. D) List of three. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) List of three. 13. An overuse of details and repetition A) Hypophoria. B) Amplification. C) Metonym. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amplification. 14. A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration used for either serious or comic effect. A) Details. B) Hyperbole. C) Euphemism. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 15. Use of words to arouse emotions, develop sound reasoning or appeal to shared values. A) Deductive argument. B) Inductive argument. C) Rhetorical appeals. D) Logical appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical appeals. 16. "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." A) Logos (Logic). B) Ethos (Authority). C) Pathos (Emotion). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos (Authority). 17. "What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation." A) Rhetorical question. B) Hypophora. C) Metaphor. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypophora. 18. Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or object. A) Apostrophe. B) Anaphora. C) Ambiguity. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 19. When and where the events of the story take place. A) Theme. B) Setting. C) Plot. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting. 20. A figure of speech in which a word, usually a verb or an adjective, applies to more than one noun, blending together grammatically and logically different ideas. A) Undertone. B) Vernacular. C) Wit. D) Zeugma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Zeugma. ← 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