This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 200 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 200 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which rhetorical device is being used? A child is shown covered in bug bites after using an inferior bug spray. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Lagos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 2. Neither of these articles discuss nonverbal cues, body language, or eye-contact. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. The A in SOAPSTone stands for ..... A) Auditory. B) Audience. C) Audi. D) Advil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Audience. 4. Which term refers to the inspiration that motivates someone to use rhetoric? A) Purpose. B) Motive. C) Requirement. D) Intelligence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Requirement. 5. America's history of persuasive rhetoricbegan with, except A) Statesmen. B) Writers. C) Salesmen. D) Orators. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Salesmen. 6. A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Parallelism. D) Slanting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 7. A statement that seems to be a contradiction but still remains true A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Pun. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 8. SOAPStToneD is mnemonic which will help you A) Fully address a passage's rhetorical situation in your rhetorical analysis. B) Recall the function of footnotes in your research essay. C) Logos more soundly while argumenting. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fully address a passage's rhetorical situation in your rhetorical analysis. 9. "Why would you let your son play video games like that? Violent video games cause teens to be violent because violent teens play violent video games." A) Loaded Question. B) Red Herring. C) Circular Reasoning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circular Reasoning. 10. Refers to all of the kinds of expressions we traditionally associate with both written words and a variety of visualizations. A) Discursive Rhetoric. B) Non-Discursive Rhetoric. C) Visual Rhetoric. D) Rhetorical Device. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-Discursive Rhetoric. 11. "The welfare of the wage worker, the welfare of the tiller of the soil-upon these depend the welfare of the entire country." -Theodore Roosevelt, 'The Man with the Muck-Rake, ' a speech that was part of a campaign against corruption, April 14, 1906. This quote contains an example of ..... : A) Multi-connectors. B) Sibilance. C) Parallelism. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 12. "America gave the Negro a bad check" A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Parallelism. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 13. What is the definition of Evidence? A) 1st sentence of a body paragraph that states what the paragraph is going to be about. B) Quotes, examples, and reasons that support your thesis/claim/topic sentence from outside sources. C) Different words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences or paragraphs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quotes, examples, and reasons that support your thesis/claim/topic sentence from outside sources. 14. Used to enhance the vividness of writing and to "paint a picture" for the reader A) Personification. B) Analogy. C) Imagery. D) Appeal to emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 15. You're making the argument that we should get half-days on Friday to allow more time for homework or jobs or recreation. Which one of these replies would be a bandwagon? A) I guess you don't think kids should learn. B) Either students go to school or they will commit crime. C) You're an idiot for thinking that. D) Everyone else goes to school full days on Friday, so should we. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Everyone else goes to school full days on Friday, so should we. 16. SYNTAX can best be defined as ..... A) Word choice. B) Sentence structure. C) Rhetorical question. D) How we build argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sentence structure. 17. What, do you think I was born yesterday?The above is an example of: A) Repetition. B) Restatement. C) Parallelism. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Question. 18. When writing a paper or a speech how many appeal(s) should be used? A) At least two. B) A balance of all three. C) One depending on your stance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A balance of all three. 19. Pathos is a(n) ..... argument. A) Emotional. B) Logical. C) Ethical. D) Ridiculous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotional. 20. The following is an example of what kind of rhetorical device? All birds have two legs and wings. A dove is a bird. A dove has two legs and wings. A) Juxtaposition. B) Synecdoche. C) Metaphor. D) Syllogism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syllogism. ← 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