This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 201 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 201 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which rhetorical choice shows readers an attitude or feeling A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 2. "My motivation comes from my personal life, from watching what my mother and father went through when I was growing up, from what we experienced as migrant workers in California." A) Proving Speaker's Credibility. B) Citing Facts/Statistics. C) Parallel Structure. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Proving Speaker's Credibility. 3. What is the best word to describe the author's attitude in the following passage:This place is old. And it does need some repairs, but I'm sure the landlord will be making improvements sometime soon. A) Objective. B) Optimistic. C) Disappointing. D) Bitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Optimistic. 4. "Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will"This is an example of: A) Antithesis. B) Anecdote. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 5. How you give your speech A) Sophistry. B) Delivery. C) Metaphor. D) Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Delivery. 6. A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them A) Simile. B) Analogy. C) Metaphor. D) Allegory. E) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 7. Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity A) Simile. B) Inversion. C) Repetition. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 8. Du Bois describes his epiphany of realizing that he is different. What event caused this realization? A) Enrolling in a primarily white school. B) Being excluded from a gift exchange at Christmas. C) Having a girl refuse his card when they were trading. D) Being denied acceptance to college. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Having a girl refuse his card when they were trading. 9. Circular reasoning A) Ploy where the arguer sidesteps questions or conflicts, evading or ignoring the question. B) Examination of the causes and/or effects of a situation or phenomenon. C) Arrangement in the order in which things occur; may move from past to present or in reverse order, from present to past. D) A use of reason in which the premises depends on or is equivalent to the conclusion, a method of false logic by which "this is used to prove that, and that is used to prove this". E) Arrangement of objects according to class. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A use of reason in which the premises depends on or is equivalent to the conclusion, a method of false logic by which "this is used to prove that, and that is used to prove this". 10. Similar structure in words, phrases, or clauses is called ..... A) Antithesis. B) Chiasmus. C) Parallelism. D) Good writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 11. YOUR ANSWER TO #17 A) F. B) G. C) H. D) J. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) G. 12. Michael Jordan and LeBron James are the spokesmen for basketball shoes. A) Juxtaposition. B) Allusion. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethos. 13. I have been married for 58 years and I can tell you that he will not be a good husband to you. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 14. Something intended to divert attention from the real problem or argument at hand; a misleading clue is called- A) Straw Man. B) To Man. C) Red Herring. D) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Herring. 15. TRUE or FALSE? ..... Authors employ different sentence structures to create an emotion in a particular passage. For example, repetition can build up a feeling of anger or passion. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 16. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. A) Simile. B) Anaphora. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 17. Which persuasive appeal uses claims that are backed up with specific evidence, facts, or statistics? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 18. Hundreds of peer-reviewedstudies show that learning toplay a musical instrument hasbenefits for memory later in life. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 19. Statements:All the trucks are flies. Some scooters are flies. Conclusions:All the trucks are scooters. Some scooters are trucks. A) Neither (1) nor (2) follows. B) Only (2) conclusion follows. C) Only (1) conclusion follows. D) Both (1) and (2) follow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neither (1) nor (2) follows. 20. An (a) contains repeated sounds at the beginning of a word. A) A alliteration. B) Juxtaposition. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A alliteration. ← 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