This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 167 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 167 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Numerical facts or data used as evidence. A) Rhetorical shifts. B) Simile. C) Statistics. D) Testimonial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Statistics. 2. Is disinformation the same as propaganda A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 3. The following is an example of which type of rhetorical device? There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service. A) Personification. B) Juxtaposition. C) Irony. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 4. What is meant by exigence? A) The wider context of a situation. B) The make up of an audience. C) The specific reason why the speaker speaks now. D) The theories behind a speakers speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The specific reason why the speaker speaks now. 5. Exaggeration used for emphasis; heighten effect; catalyze recognition; create a humorous perception A) Euphemism. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. Choose an example of a Claim of Fact: A) Beauty's father allows her to sacrifice herself in order to save himself. B) Beauty's father should never have allowed Beauty to sacrifice herself. C) Beauty is a character in "Beauty and the Beast.". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beauty's father allows her to sacrifice herself in order to save himself. 7. What is the main characteristic of prose? A) It is always fictional. B) It is always in verse form. C) The printer determines the length of the line. D) The poet determines the length of the line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The printer determines the length of the line. 8. The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form"a state sweltering with the heat of injustice" A) Vernacular. B) Personification. C) Propaganda. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 9. The oldest type of vocabulary is.....vocabulary. A) Judicial. B) Politically. C) Spiritually. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spiritually. 10. Statement that is completely unbiased is ..... A) Subjective. B) Objective. C) Personal. D) Nonobjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Objective. 11. Arguing and persuading are the same thing. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object A) Satire. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Regionalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. A part of a text in which the content of the clauses, phrases, or words being balanced in the parallel structure offers a contrast A) Active voice. B) Antimetabole. C) Aysedenton. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 14. This type of an editorial explains the significance or meaning of a news event, current idea, condition, or situation, theory or hypothesis. A) Argumentation. B) Interpretation. C) Information. D) Recommendation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interpretation. 15. Which rhetorical technique is being used in this example? "Why pay more?" A) Open-ended Question. B) Expert Opinion. C) Cause and Effect. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Question. 16. A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event A) Homily. B) Genre. C) Motif. D) Anecdote. E) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdote. 17. A sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or personified abstraction (absent or present) A) Synecdoche. B) Apostrophe. C) Metonymy. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 18. Which rhetorical device does the below scenario depict? Rachael has to convince her parents to let her go out with her friends on Friday night. This is her argument: "Mom and Dad I would like to go out with my friends Friday night. I know you said no and I understand. However, in the past 6 months, I have come home on time and I have straight A's." A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 19. Putting two contrasting elements together that are so unlike that the effect is surprising, witty, or even startling. A) Oxymoron. B) Juxtaposition. C) Analogy. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juxtaposition. 20. Which of the following does NOT compare two things A) Anecdote. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anecdote. ← 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