This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 178 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 178 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Mr. Jones has delivered packages on time for the last year with no exceptions. I know he will be a great addition to our delivery service. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 2. One thing results from another. A) Catharsis. B) To Man. C) Casual Relationship. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Casual Relationship. 3. The emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and/or audience A) Tone. B) Shift. C) Anaphora. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 4. ..... uses facts to persuade the audience (reader) A) Testimonial. B) Snob Appeal. C) Logos-Logical Appeal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos-Logical Appeal. 5. A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression A) Jargon. B) Paradox. C) Oxymoron. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 6. A principle demanding that the parts of any composition be arranged so that the meaning of the whole may be made immediately clear and intelligible A) Loose sentence. B) Coherence. C) Inference. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coherence. 7. If an advertisement is appealing to your sense of logic, what rhetorical appeal are they using? A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 8. An appeal to logic is known as this. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 9. "Tis but a scratch" is an example of a(n) ..... A) Rhetorical Question. B) Euphemism. C) Allusion. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 10. Satire that addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule. A) Horatian. B) Juvenalian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juvenalian. 11. At the end of the story, we readers aren't really sure if the protagonist survives or not. This is an example of: A) Ambiguity. B) Cliche. C) Understatement. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ambiguity. 12. Making an assumption about everyone/thing based on little information; similar to stereotyping A) False cause and effect fallacy. B) Bandwagon fallacy. C) Either/or fallacy. D) Hasty generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hasty generalization. 13. Example:as a doctor, I am best qualified to recommend the most effective treatment A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Simile. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 14. Pathos appeals to the audience's emotions asking them to believe because: A) They care. B) They are less knowledgeable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They care. 15. What is the difference in context and exigence? A) Context is the time period a text is about whereas exigence is the time and location a speech occurs. B) Context is the rhetorical situation of a text whereas exigence is the event/situation that sparked a speaker to create a text. C) Context is the immediate reason a text is written whereas exigence is what was occurring within the past 5-10 years leading up to the text that might affect what goes on in the text. D) Context is what was occurring within the past 5-10 years leading up to the text that might affect what goes on in the text whereas exigence is the event/situation that sparked the writer/speaker to create the text at that moment in time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Context is what was occurring within the past 5-10 years leading up to the text that might affect what goes on in the text whereas exigence is the event/situation that sparked the writer/speaker to create the text at that moment in time. 16. State the device used in the quote "Sally sells seashells by the seashore." A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Alliteration. D) Restatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. A commercial shows an image of a happy couple riding in a Corvette. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 18. Language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience. A) Ethos/ethos (noun). B) Rhetoric/rhetoric (noun). C) Pathos/pathos(noun). D) Reason/reason (noun). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric/rhetoric (noun). 19. Define the root:Cred A) Break. B) Equal. C) Location. D) Believe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Believe. 20. Written words are expressed by another person, not the author himself. A) Exactly. B) Incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exactly. ← 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