This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 170 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 170 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define SOAPSTone A) Any cultural product that can be read. B) S = Subject O = Occasion A = Audience P = Purpose S = Speaker T(one) = Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) S = Subject O = Occasion A = Audience P = Purpose S = Speaker T(one) = Tone. 2. When two or more words, phrases, or ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast or any other desired effect A) Juxtaposition. B) Repetition. C) Anaphora. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 3. This method of persuasion requires a credible authority to convince the audience. (a) A) A ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A ethos. 4. How could one define visual rhetoric? A) How written elements persuade the audience. B) How visual elements persuade the audience. C) The art of effective communication through visual elements. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 5. "The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges." What type of figurative language is present here? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 6. ..... means:repetition of one or more words at the END of successive phrases or clauses A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Anthimeria. D) Apposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 7. The phrase "in order to" is used to help explain the authors position regarding what? A) Purpose. B) Claim. C) Audience. D) Support. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purpose. 8. A statement made in the form of a question but that is not meant to be answered ..... A) Allusion. B) Rhetorical question. C) Parallelism. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 9. Provoke readers to thoughtfully consider an author's idea by not actually answering A) Hyperbole. B) Paradox. C) Rhetorical question. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical question. 10. "The city is totally safe, " the mayor said after twenty-armed robberies in the last week. A) Downplayer. B) Rhetorical analogy. C) Hinting. D) Truth surrogate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinting. 11. Hinting that proof exists to support what you are saying but never actually citing that proof (e.g. "Studies show ..... ") A) Slanter. B) Truth Surrogates. C) Ridicule. D) Dysphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Truth Surrogates. 12. The sentence structure in the sentence, "Of the people, by the people, for the people, " is an example of which rhetorical device? A) Parallelism. B) Personification. C) Repetition. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 13. "The snow is a white blanket ", "He is a shining star", "Her long hair was a flowing golden river" are all examples of a: A) Stanza. B) Similarly. C) Metaphor. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 14. Pick the term that matches the definition:The opposite of Asyndeton-overusing coordinating conjunctions such as "and" in a succession of phrases or clauses to create emphasis A) Unconnected. B) Alliteration. C) Multi-connector. D) Formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multi-connector. 15. Logic A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 16. A piece of writing can only have one purpose. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. To bring about suddenly is to A) Modify. B) Stifle. C) Precipitate. D) Expostulate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Precipitate. 18. (Latin for "to the crowd") a fallacy of logic in which the widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make it true or right A) To man. B) To the people. C) Appeal to authority. D) Authority. E) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To the people. 19. "I find no peace, and all my war is done I fear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice, I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;" A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 20. In SOAPSTone, the T is representative of the attitude of the speaker/author. A) Tone. B) Thoughts. C) Teachings. D) Timbre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. ← 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