This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 193 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 193 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How can you establish pathos? A) Use jargon or specialized terms. B) Use statistics. C) Use descriptive language. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use descriptive language. 2. The following statement is an example of what literary term?Sheldon Cooper is a perfect example of this. A) Pedantic. B) Rhetorical devices. C) Ellipsis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pedantic. 3. State a position, recommend a solution, present an interpretation. (a) A) Cause and Effect. B) Compare and Contrast. C) Explain and Describe. D) A Proposition and Support. E) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Proposition and Support. 4. "One of my very good school friends, the same age as me, had always been a bold and confident girl and dreamed of becoming a doctor. But her dream remained a dream. At age of 12, she was forced to get married and then soon had a son at an age when she herself was a child-only 14. I know that my friend would have been a very good doctor.But she couldn't ..... because she was a girl." Which rhetoric tool is this? A) Anecdote. B) Proving speaker's credibility. C) Emotionally-charged language. D) Parallel structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anecdote. 5. This offers credibility in writing, and are used with Logos. A) Facts and Statistics. B) Opinions. C) Rhetoric. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Facts and Statistics. 6. Celebrity sponsorships make use of this mode of persuasion. A) Pathos. B) Weather. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 7. An appeal to someone's logical reasoning A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Chronos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 8. Who opened the first McDonald's restaurant? A) The McDonald brothers in San Bernardino, California in 1948. B) Ray Kroc in Des Plaines, Illinois in 1955. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The McDonald brothers in San Bernardino, California in 1948. 9. [1] What was less well-known, until recently at least, was how this relationship among sea otters, sea urchins, and kelp forests might help fight global warming. [2] The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased 40 percent. [3] A recent study by two professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Chris Wilmers and James Estes, suggests, that kelp forests protected by sea otters can absorb as much as twelve times the amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as those where sea urchins are allowed to devour the kelp. [4] Like their terrestrial plant cousins, kelp removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, turning it into sugar fuel through photosynthesis, and releases oxygen back into the air.[5] Scientists knew this but did not recognize how large a role they played in helping kelp forests to significantly decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Where is the most logical place in this paragraph to add the following sentence?What Wilmers and Estes discovered in their study, therefore, surprised them. A) After sentence 1. B) After sentence 3. C) After sentence 4. D) After sentence 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) After sentence 5. 10. This means to appeal to one's sense of reason or logic. This may include providing facts, statistics, examples (hypothetical or real). A) Rationalism. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 11. "The world is a stage, and we are all actors playing our parts." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Sensory Language. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. An ad using a funny talking dog to sell a product is focused on: A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 13. Which is not a key category of rhetoric? A) Diction. B) Figurative Language. C) Allusions. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusions. 14. Find the rhetorical device in this sentence: "With great power comes great responsibility." A) Hypallage. B) Hyperbaton. C) Epigram. D) Periphrasis. E) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbaton. 15. A contrast of ideas and words written in a balanced or parallel construction. A) Antithesis. B) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 16. Which is an example of Ethos from Steve Jobs's speech? A) Steve Jobs is the creator of Apple, a trillion dollar company. B) Steve Jobs was adopted as a baby. C) Steve Jobs wants you to follow your dreams now. D) Steve Jobs believes that failure can be a good thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Steve Jobs is the creator of Apple, a trillion dollar company. 17. A sentence fragment used deliberately for persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect. A) Multi-connector. B) Rhetorical fragment. C) Rhetorical question. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical fragment. 18. A fallacy in which an idea is just repeated in different terms rather than proved A) Hasty generalization. B) Circular reasoning. C) Red herring. D) Slippery slope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circular reasoning. 19. What is the Latin name for a statement of facts in the six parts of classical rhetoric? A) Narration. B) Notation. C) Narrative. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative. 20. Trump criticizes an opponent by basically saying that he would be "electrocuted" if he acted like that. A) True. B) False. 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