This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 180 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 180 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A comparison of two unlike things using a form of the verb to be. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. Immediately, especially in a brusquely imperious way A) Unavailing. B) Latent. C) Peremptorily. D) Credulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peremptorily. 3. A trope in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it. A) Inference. B) Metonymy. C) Pathetic Fallacy. D) Rhetorical Question. E) Tragic Flaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 4. Which rhetorical appeal is based on logic and reasoning? A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Weather. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logos. 5. The following is the use of what rhetorical device?"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." A) Anaphora. B) Allusion. C) Folding. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folding. 6. The time and place an argument occurs: A) Situation. B) Context. C) Is very important. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 7. "everything like Mercury, the voice and the color and the yellow hair and the beautiful limbs of the youth." (Vergil, Aeneid 4.558-9) A) Unwise. B) Multi-connectors. C) Chiasmus. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multi-connectors. 8. An emotional statement, often indicated with an exclamation mark. A) Pathos. B) Appeal. C) Claim. D) Exclamation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exclamation. 9. "Slavery is morally wrong." To which literary selection does this theme best apply? A) "Prospectus for The Liberator". B) "Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Prospectus for The Liberator". 10. Rhetoric is diagrammed as a A) Circle. B) Triangle. C) Square. D) Hexagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Triangle. 11. Which rhetorical device is being used in the following lines from the "Pearl Harbor" speech? "Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Phillippine Islands. Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island." A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 12. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words is called ..... A) Anaphora. B) Alliteration. C) Multi-connector. D) Aporia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 13. "We make it easy for you to discover and create your own videos by providing easy-to-use tools to view and capture your daily moments. Take your videos to the next level with special effects, filters, music, and more." A) Logos (Logic). B) Ethos (Authority). C) Pathos (Emotion). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos (Logic). 14. An ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (you won't be sorry) A) Paradox. B) Trope. C) Conceit. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 15. What is a fallacy? A) A strong and flawless argument. B) Faulty reasoning in an argument. C) The tone of voice which a speaker uses. D) A type of figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faulty reasoning in an argument. 16. Example:sanitation engineer instead of garbage man A) Juxtaposition. B) Euphemism. C) Metaphor. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 17. The words of the story jumped off the page. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 18. "After years of this type of disrespect from your boss, countless hours wasted, birthdays missed ..... it's time that you took a stand." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 19. The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device? I was so embarrassed, I almost died right there in front of everyone! A) Anaphora. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 20. The author's use of the phrase in lines 35-37 ("how my ..... freedom") is primarily meant to convey A) The frustration the author experienced before she could speak. B) That the author was unable to organize her ideas effectively when using the manual alphabet. C) The importance of patience when faced with difficult obstacles. D) The difference between written and oral communication . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The frustration the author experienced before she could speak. ← 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