This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 20 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the reader or audience knows more about the events or a story than the characters in the story. A) Dramatic Irony. B) Situational Irony. C) Verbal Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic Irony. 2. Choose the sentence that is in parallel structure. A) Eric Foreman decorates the Christmas tree, picks up his grandma from the nursing home, and friends are invited over for dinner. B) Eric Foreman decorates the Christmas tree, picks up his grandma from the nursing home, and invited friends over for dinner. C) Eric Foreman decorates the Christmas tree, picks up his grandma from the nursing home, and invites friends over for dinner. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eric Foreman decorates the Christmas tree, picks up his grandma from the nursing home, and invites friends over for dinner. 3. Strong word choices; words that can elicit specific emotions from the audience A) Diction. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 4. An assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, yet may have some truth to it A) Rhetorical question. B) Multi-connectors. C) Euphemism. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 5. The narrators throughout the documentary are farmers, consumers, and workers who care about how food should be processed, so that the food will be healthy and safe for the consumers to eat. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 6. When a writer precedes important information with a key, signifying word, this is known as? A) Didactic. B) Hypophoria. C) Apophasis. D) Constellation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Constellation. 7. A student wants to write about an author's specific choice of diction and words. Into which larger rhetorical choice should he enter this information? A) A paragraph about organization. B) A paragraph about syntax. C) A paragraph about style. D) A paragraph about types of evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A paragraph about style. 8. Purpose is ..... A) A gap, a need, a lack, something that needs doing. The cause for an author to write. B) A reader or group of readers capable of acting on this exigence. C) What the author intends for the reader(s) to do while and after they read the text. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What the author intends for the reader(s) to do while and after they read the text. 9. To evaluate or estimate the nature A) Attributes. B) Bombards. C) Assails. D) Assesses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assesses. 10. The image of an editorial is ..... A) Impactful. B) Not related. C) Meant to explain. D) About the newspaper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impactful. 11. Which word has a negative connotation? A) Stench. B) Smell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stench. 12. The Vegas Golden Knights won the NHL Stanley Cup in 2023 A) Fact. B) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fact. 13. Red herring fallacy A) A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it. B) A method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics. C) Occurs when the writer assumes that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident. D) To describe by specifying the characteristics or qualities of; characterize. E) When a speaker introduces an irrelevant issue or piece of evidence to divert attention from the subject of the speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) When a speaker introduces an irrelevant issue or piece of evidence to divert attention from the subject of the speech. 14. An appeal to an audience that uses logic, reasoning, evidence, and facts to support an argument ..... appeals to the more rational side of the audience's minds and provides support for the subject matter. A) Rebuttal. B) Logical Fallacy. C) Logos. D) Claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 15. "Clattering Cauldrons" is an example of ..... A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. If, for example, you wished to talk about a writer's use of similes, which of the following statements is incorrect A) The similes serve to help express a message. B) The writer has repeatedly used similes. C) The similes are a natural part of the writer's language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The similes are a natural part of the writer's language. 17. An appeal to emotion. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 18. Figures of Rhetoric are useful when A) We write. B) We don't know what to write. C) We analyze rhetoric in others' writings. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward; rather than ignoring this, a strong writer will usually address it through the process of concession and refutation. A) Argument. B) Counterargument. C) Confirmation. D) Oration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Counterargument. 20. The "unsinkable" ship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage. A) Irony. B) Allusion. C) Oxymoron. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. ← 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