This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 19 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Mr. Anderson is clearly the most qualified candidate for the open teaching position. He has a doctorate in elementary education, 25 years of teaching experience in public schools, and has been twice awarded for his innovative style and classroom management skills." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 2. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dreamtoday.-Martin Luther King Jr. A) Euphemism. B) Anaphora Repetition. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora Repetition. 3. Preclude A) To prevent; to make impossibe. B) To put to use. C) To form something by combining separate parts. D) To indicate or suggest without directing stating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To prevent; to make impossibe. 4. Define:Analogy A) A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. B) The writer is adding more information to a sentence. The hope is that the sentence will become stronger, louder, or more important. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. 5. Repeating of WORDS or PHRASES ..... Example:MLK, Jr. repeated "I have a dream." A) Repetition. B) Speech Structures. C) Parallelism. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 6. The art of using language to persuade A) Hyperbole. B) Rhetoric. C) Slogan. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 7. Revise this sentence so that it is grammatically correct:Ophelia is picking up the food, I am making the sandwiches. A) Ophelia, is picking up the food, I am making the sandwiches. B) Ophelia is picking up the food I am making the sandwiches. C) Ophelia is picking up the food; I am making the sandwiches. D) Ophelia is picking up the food and I am making the sandwiches. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ophelia is picking up the food; I am making the sandwiches. 8. Name the type of repetition present in this quote: "Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends." A) Euphemism. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epistrophe. 9. I have 7 siblings that I helped take care of, I volunteer in the nursery at church, and I reference letters from 2 couples that I babysat for this summer.What appeal is this person using? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 10. What type of propaganda is this? A) Logos. B) Transfer. C) Testimonial. D) Glittering Generalities. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Testimonial. 11. Which is the best explanation for the example of personification "The child was like a statue." A) This is not an example of personification. B) This is personification because it gives a non human thing human characteristics. C) This is personification because it gives the child human qualities. D) This is personification because it compares two things using like or as. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This is not an example of personification. 12. Which of the options below has the following definiton:giving an unliving or unhumane thing human characteristics. A) Paradox. B) Personification. C) Rhetoric. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. When the narrator takes on a persona of his own, rather than remaining objective; the reader must take into consideration his biases and intents A) Figure of speech. B) Prose. C) Persona. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persona. 14. One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. Ex. "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground." Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863. A) Epistrophe. B) Folding. C) Anaphora. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 15. Within a sentence, a series of words will begin with the same sound A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Pun. D) Lists of 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 16. What kind of figurative language is this:The sunflowers begged for water A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 17. Attempts to evoke an emotional response in the audience A) Condition. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 18. Which type of rhetorical appeal is used in the following sentence: "Advil Liqui-Gels provide up to 8 hours of continuous pain relief." A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 19. A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life (usually politics, human vice, or social conventions) to a humorous effect. A) Sarcasm. B) Verbal Irony. C) Satire. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. 20. Choose the rhetorical appeal that is used in the following quote."But dad I have to go to this university! It has a winning Lacrosse team, an established nursing program, and guarantees a job within a year of graduating." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. 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