This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 161 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 161 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted order; "Fair is foul and foul is fair"-Shakespeare A) Chiasmus. B) Zeugma. C) Synecdoche. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmus. 2. There are still many countries in the world with ..... groups of citizens. A) Ineffectual. B) Infamy. C) Enfranchised. D) Sustain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enfranchised. 3. A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. A) Personification. B) Multi-connector. C) Point of View. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. Cindy Smith and Cindy Rogers are both amazing students.Cindy Smith loves to eat candy apples. Therefore, Cindy Rogers loves to eat candy apples. A) Either-Or Fallacy. B) False Premise. C) Circular Reasoning. D) Hasty Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False Premise. 5. TEXT A) Persuasive appeal from facts, logic or reason. B) An imaginary audience consisting of all humanity. C) Any piece of writing, not just a textbook. D) Comparison, referring to one thing as another. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Any piece of writing, not just a textbook. 6. Melissa's shaking curls were a forest of ringlets. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Litotes. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 7. The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing is called A) Persuasion. B) Arguing. C) Rhetoric. D) Complaining. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 8. Logical fallacy in which a person attacks the person proposing an argument rather than on the argument itself. A) Red herring. B) False dichotomy. C) Bandwagon. D) Ad hominem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ad hominem. 9. "If we don't move soon, we're all going to die! Can't you see how dangerous it would be to stay?" This is an example of ..... A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Scare Tactics. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scare Tactics. 10. Which is NOT an element of SOAPSTONE? A) Subject. B) Position. C) Hearing. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Position. 11. PERSUASION A) The first part or paragraph of a persuasive text. B) "Style.". C) Statement of Facts. Telling the story. D) Any piece of writing, not just a textbook. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The first part or paragraph of a persuasive text. 12. An account of events as they actually happen. A) Narration. B) Exposition. C) Description. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narration. 13. "I promised I would not say that she [Carly Fiorina] ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground, that she laid off tens of thousands of people and she got viciously fired. I said I will not say it, so I will not say it" ..... Presidential Nominee Donald Trump This quote is an example of A) Logos, pathos, and ethos. B) Ethos and logos. C) Pathos and logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos, pathos, and ethos. 14. Bandwagon is a propaganda device that is used to: A) Advertises how bands ride in wagons. B) Trick you into thinking that the product being advertised is no longer available. C) Show how everyone else is doing it, or buying it, therefore, you should, too. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Show how everyone else is doing it, or buying it, therefore, you should, too. 15. Prolonged, cruel or unjust treatment or control A) Conformity. B) Oppression. C) Censorship. D) Control tags1984Real Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oppression. 16. Which of these is the best summary of lines 74-81 of the MJF speech? A) Tremors and stiffness are side effects of taking too little Parkinson's medicine. B) It can take a long time for Parkinson's medicines to start working. C) Medicating Parkinson's patients is difficult and eventually the medicines stop working. D) Parkinson's symptoms can be controlled with the right medications. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medicating Parkinson's patients is difficult and eventually the medicines stop working. 17. Amplification means to say much about one thing. (emphasize) What is this also known as? A) Assumption. B) Straw man. C) Copiousness. D) Dilemma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Copiousness. 18. There is a direct relationship between a sign and its referent A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) Not sure. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 19. What is Subliminal Messaging/Advertising? A) The use of images and sounds to influence audiences without them being aware of it. B) Using Mass Media to reach large groups of people. C) Interacting with and commenting on media posts. D) Receiving credible information from a source of media. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The use of images and sounds to influence audiences without them being aware of it. 20. "Zombies eat brains. You're safe." This is an example of: A) Irony. B) Symbolism. C) Sarcasm. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarcasm. ← 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