This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 189 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 189 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Uses a short story or life experience as an example to support a point. A) Anaphora. B) Anecdote. C) Parallelism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anecdote. 2. Who is the intended audience for the Tylenol ad? A) Adults with high blood pressure. B) Kids with sports injuries. C) Adults who are really active. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adults with high blood pressure. 3. What must card stacking have? A) A list of powerful words. B) A list of actual, verifiable facts. C) A list of only positive qualities of a candidate. D) A list of adjectives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A list of actual, verifiable facts. 4. The occasion of Buck 'O Neil's speech is ..... A) The induction of 16 people into the Negro Leagues. B) The celebration of baseball. C) Baseball fans. D) The induction of 17 people into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The induction of 17 people into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 5. Read the sentences. What is the difference between the words mortified and embarrassed?A. Sam was mortified when he was called to come up onstage during the assembly.B. Sam was embarrassed when he was called to come up on stage during the assembly. A) "Mortified" is the antonym of "embarrassed". B) "Mortified" is more intense and has a more negative connotation than "embarrassed.". C) "Embarrassed" is more intense and has more negative connotation than "mortified" . D) "Mortified" and "embarrassed" have different denotations or dictionary meanings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Mortified" is more intense and has a more negative connotation than "embarrassed.". 6. ....., an ancient greek philosopher, is credited with crafting the foundation of rhetoric. A) Aripostle. B) Aristotle. C) Euripides. D) Arelamy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aristotle. 7. Not by choice A) Involuntary. B) Abridged. C) Converted. D) Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Involuntary. 8. Using multiple conjunctions in a list A) Anaphora. B) Unconnected. C) Multi-connector. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multi-connector. 9. Sally is asking Sam why he decided to buy a bunch of junk food when they had agreed to try to save money. Sam's response is that Sally bought a new video game last week so she shouldn't be criticizing him. A) Red Herring. B) Circular Reasoning. C) False Analogy. D) Straw Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Herring. 10. Name that appeal!A billboard for Adidas has a famous athlete exercising in the newest shoes. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 11. The image is an example of which structure? A) Cause and Effect. B) Topical. C) Compare and Contrast. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compare and Contrast. 12. The way(s) in which a speaker arranges his or her speech A) Speech Structure. B) Parallel Structure. C) Rhetoric. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speech Structure. 13. The senior prank of writing "senior" in fertilizer on the football field will live in ..... A) Infamy. B) Solicitation. C) Specter. D) Ingenious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infamy. 14. Category of rhetoric that is mainly concerned with what happened in the present. A) Judicial. B) Demonstrative. C) Deliberative. D) Syntactic. E) Semantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demonstrative. 15. Speaking of repetitions means A) Metaphor. B) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 16. "Life is but a walking shadow ..... " This is an example of a ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Anecdote. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 17. What is an example of an idiom? A) Kick the bucket. B) Swim the couch. C) Jump the table. D) Run the chair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kick the bucket. 18. Ancient Greece was a direct democracy. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. Who was Thomas Aquinas? A) Segregationist. B) Governor of Alabama. C) Abolitionist. D) A Dominican Friar, philosopher, Catholic Priest, and Doctor of the Church. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Dominican Friar, philosopher, Catholic Priest, and Doctor of the Church. 20. Identify the best antithetical statement A) This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. B) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. C) The line is as long as the Great Wall of China. D) Corduroy pillows are making healines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. ← 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