This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 183 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 183 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Exploit the confusion between words having similar sounds but different meanings A) Designation. B) Receipt. C) Periphrasis. D) Neologism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Designation. 2. Over how many continents did Alexander the Great's empire stretch? A) 1. B) 3. C) 5. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 3. Who wrote the poem 'The Masque of Anarchy', in response to the Peterloo Massacre? A) Emmeline Pankhurst. B) Sojourner Truth. C) Percy Shelley. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Percy Shelley. 4. Repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase A) Enumeration. B) Diacope. C) Homily. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diacope. 5. To persuade by using a credible person A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 6. It was a windy and rainy night ....., I decided to go out. A) Nevertheless. B) Otherwise. C) Hence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nevertheless. 7. Oh cruel world, oh loving hate! A) Oxymoron. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 8. A speaker's attitude toward the subject as conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices. A) Tone. B) Sinedoche. C) Denotation. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 9. The following is an example of which literary term?What if brown cows produced chocolate milk? A) Rhetorical question. B) Hypothetical question. C) Juxtaposition. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothetical question. 10. Janet has packed an orange soda, a blanket, and waters the plants before leaving. A) Correct. B) Error in structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Error in structure. 11. Barack Obama is considered a better speaker than Trump in every way. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture. A) Image. B) Figurative Language. C) Foreshadowing. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 13. Which of the following is an example of logos? A) Using credibility to persuade. B) Using fear to persuade. C) Using statistics to persuade. D) Using emotional appeal to persuade. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using statistics to persuade. 14. The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence A) Repetition. B) Anaphora. C) Multi-connector. D) Unconnected. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unconnected. 15. What emotion is not part of FADAS? A) Amusement. B) Desire. C) Frustration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frustration. 16. The art of persuasion in a writing or speech A) Rhetoric. B) Rhetorical Triangle. C) Message. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric. 17. "The tropical storm slept for days" . This is an example of what figurative language device? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. How would you define an allusion? A) An appeal to logic. B) A type of repetition where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of sentences or paragraphs in a row. C) A reference to another work. D) A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A reference to another work. 19. What does allusion refer to? A) A rhetorical device. B) A well-known person. C) An event. D) A piece of literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rhetorical device. 20. A group of words with a subject and a verb is a A) A clause (which might also be a sentence). B) A simple sentence. C) A complex sentence. D) A compound sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A clause (which might also be a sentence). ← 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