This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 163 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 163 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the author appeals to your emotions: A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 2. Your History teacher gives a classroom lecture about The United States Civil War. The S in SPACECAT is: A) Your History Teacher. B) You, the student. C) President Abraham Lincoln. D) The Civil War. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Your History Teacher. 3. Hannah's home has heat, hopefully. A) Alliteration. B) Pun. C) Assonance. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. The tone of a text is ..... A) The audience's feelings about it. B) The world's feelings about it. C) The reader's feelings about it. D) The speakers feelings about their subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The speakers feelings about their subject. 5. What is this an example of:Garry grumpily gathered the garbage. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Anaphora. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. "My mother cooked roasted turkey and cornbread stuffing and sweet potatoes and peas and apple pie." A) Antithesis. B) Diction. C) Multi-connectors. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multi-connectors. 7. What are the common elements of a rhetorical situation? A) Text, author, audience, purposes, setting. B) Writer, reader, text, goal, setting. C) Speaker, audience, message, purpose, content. D) Presenter, viewer, information, objective, environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Text, author, audience, purposes, setting. 8. Repeating the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) An example. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 9. What 2 questions does Swift suggest to anyone with other ideas that resolve the problem he identified? A) How will you decrease Catholics and support them without debt?. B) How will you feed and clothe 100, 000 people and support them without debt?. C) How will you decrease the Protestants? How will you then buy stock?. D) How will you feed Irish babies and decrease the population?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How will you feed and clothe 100, 000 people and support them without debt?. 10. An argument that appeals to popular opinion as the basis for its truth. A) Hasty generalization. B) Circular reasoning. C) Guilt by association. D) Bandwagon fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bandwagon fallacy. 11. What does logos use to persuade? A) Logic and reason. B) Emotion. C) Humility. D) Physical force. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logic and reason. 12. Setting up a source as credible and trustworthy A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 13. "My fellow citizens:I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors." A) Appeals to association. B) Parallelism. C) Diction. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 14. Fear A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 15. Proof to support your claim A) Claim. B) Evidence. C) Reasoning. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evidence. 16. I'm not just invested in this community-I love every building, every business, every hard-working member of this town. A) Pathos-Emotional Appeal. B) Logos-Logical Appeal. C) Ethos-Ethical Appeal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos-Emotional Appeal. 17. *Any action, whether intended to communicate or not, can be interpreted rhetorically by those who experience or encounter it. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) Not sure. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 18. What is the impact of an effective RHETORICAL QUESTION? A) It establishes the credibility of the speaker. B) It establishes an emotional response from the audience. C) It establishes a logical connection between the argument and the audience. D) It leads an audience to a desired result. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It leads an audience to a desired result. 19. Wow! This makes me feel ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 20. A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. If it is independent, it expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. If it is dependent, or subordinate, it cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independent. A) Father Christmas. B) Santa. C) Clause. D) Kris Kringle. 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