This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 191 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 191 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An opposing argument, by acknowledging a ....., you make your own position stronger because you are refuting it's validity. A) Tone. B) Claim. C) Counterargument. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Counterargument. 2. Using human traits to describe non-human things A) Allusion. B) Pun. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. What would pumping a fist in the air convey? A) Happiness. B) Triumph. C) Sadness. D) Regret. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Triumph. 4. Sentence structure; the order of words in a sentence A) Syntax. B) Occasion. C) Purpose. D) Credibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 5. ..... means:a rhetorical device that uses a word in a new grammatical shape, often as a noun or a verb. Simply, it replaces one part of speech with another. A) Anthimeria. B) Unrelated. C) Antimetabole. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthimeria. 6. Which logical fallacy is this?"Seeing that it is dark outside makes me feel tired; darkness causes tiredness." A) Hasty Generalization. B) Either-Or/False Dilemma. C) Post Hoc. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Post Hoc. 7. Category of rhetoric that is mainly concerned with what happened in the future. A) Judicial. B) Demonstrative. C) Deliberative. D) Syntactic. E) Semantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deliberative. 8. A means of convincing an audience using authority or credibility A) Rhetoric. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethos. 9. Which means everything you do-playing games, surfing the web, enjoying photos and videos-becomes more personal, immediate, and immersive ..... This is an example of what? A) Attack. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Repetition. D) Rule of Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rule of Three. 10. What is a generalization? A) A fact. B) An opinion. C) A broad statement about a subject based on information, observations, and experiences. D) What a passage is mostly about. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A broad statement about a subject based on information, observations, and experiences. 11. The state of being denied due privilege by a government. A) Enfranchised. B) Torpor. C) Specter. D) Inevitable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enfranchised. 12. Buffalo chicken cheesesteaks are my achilles heel is an example of ..... A) Allusion. B) Juxtaposition. C) Extended Metaphor. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 13. Which of the following would be a technique that uses a logos appeal? A) Using pictures of a hurt child. B) Including research. C) Having someone credible who agrees with you. D) Making people laugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Including research. 14. Which of the following may most closely relate to the literary device of personification? A) Hypallage. B) Hyperbaton. C) Epigram. D) Periphrasis. E) Metonymy tagsrhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypallage. 15. The reader is persuaded to agree by sympathy A) Understatement. B) Logos. C) Point of view. D) Hyperbole. E) Appeal to pity. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Appeal to pity. 16. The quality of a speech or written work that appeals to the emotions of the audience. A) Random. B) Ethos. C) Allegory. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 17. What is the meaning of kairos in Greek? A) Word or reason. B) The measurement of time. C) The evocation of emotions in the audience. D) The right timing to take action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The right timing to take action. 18. Parallelism (or parallel structure) is ..... A) A reference that needs little or no context because it is considered common knowledge. B) When components of a sentence or sentences have the same or similar grammatical construction. C) The use of examples to prove of claim; often creates a logical appeal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When components of a sentence or sentences have the same or similar grammatical construction. 19. Which of the following options below has the follwing definition:using word or phrase pattern that are similar to create emphasis A) Simile. B) Parallelism. C) Anaphora. D) Metronomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 20. The occasion of a text is ..... A) The date it was written. B) The time period it was written in. C) The events that are taking place in the world when it was written. D) The time of day when it was written. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The events that are taking place in the world when it was written. ← 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