This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 204 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 204 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Every day, I look at the weeks deadline and make sure I'm on track to meet them. A) NO CHANGE. B) Week's. C) Weeks'. D) Weeks's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Week's. 2. If an author writes with a few short sentences and then a long one and then a short one again, what style is he using? A) Sentence fluency. B) Sentence variation. C) Mood. D) Word Choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sentence variation. 3. Teacher is to school as doctor is to ..... A) Hospital. B) Health. C) Person. D) Nurse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hospital. 4. An expression of understanding and caring for someone else who is suffering or has problems that have caused unhappiness. A) Logic (noun). B) Empathy/empathy (noun). C) Sympathy/sympathy (noun). D) Ethics/ethics (noun). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sympathy/sympathy (noun). 5. A comparison of two things and uses the words "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 6. Simplifying an argument to make it easier to attack or refute is called- A) False dilemma. B) Straw Man. C) Hasty Generalization. D) To Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Straw Man. 7. This term refers to an argument that appeals to one's emotions A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 8. Those savvy in rhetoric can distinguish A) Fake news from credible journalism. B) Advertising ploys from information. C) Manipulation from civil conversation. D) All other answers in this set are true. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All other answers in this set are true. 9. Diacope A) Inversion of parts of a phrase in a sentence. B) Repetition of a phrase after an intervening word or phrase in a sentence. C) Repetition of the last word of one sentence as the first word of the next sentence. D) Repetition of the same sound or letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition of a phrase after an intervening word or phrase in a sentence. 10. Faulty causality A) Using an ambiguous term in more than one sense, thus making an argument misleading. B) A type of informal fallacy in which something is falsely claimed to be an either/or situation, when in fact there is at least one additional option. C) A fallacy that occurs when an analogy compares two things that are not comparable. D) Refers to the setting up of a cause-and-effect relationship when none exists. E) Occurs when the proponent uses too small of a sample size to support a sweeping generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refers to the setting up of a cause-and-effect relationship when none exists. 11. Religion (desire to follow the rules and behaviors of one's faith), patriotism (the urge to place one's coutnry before personal needs), standards (the desire to be a good citizen, student, parent, etc.) and humanitarianism (secular appeal to help others, save the environment, etc.) may be used in this type of appeal. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 12. Which logical fault is this:Geologists and scientists all over the world are discovering strong evidence for a 6000-year-old earth, yet because of the threat of ruining their reputation, they are suppressing the evidence and keeping quiet. A) Ad hominem. B) Conspiracy theory. C) Exaggeration. D) False certainty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conspiracy theory. 13. What do we call part of a sentence with no verb or subject? A) A clause. B) A phrase. C) An object. D) A sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A phrase. 14. Juxtaposition. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee A) Anecdote. B) Aphorism. C) Allegory. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 15. Define implicit. A) Explicitly mentioned. B) Implied though not plainly expressed. C) Open to interpretation. D) Clearly stated or expressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Implied though not plainly expressed. 16. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are modes of? A) Statistics. B) Credibility. C) Persuasion. D) Sympathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuasion. 17. Her small waist is accentuated, but from there, the skirt gently flares outlike a Calla Lily. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 18. Making an implied comparison, not using "like, " as, " or other such words. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Analogue. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 19. Q:When a speaker focuses attention on the writer's or speaker's trustworthiness, knowledge, relatability, and credibility to convince the audience of one's expertise on a topic, they are using ..... A) Logos. B) Anaphora. C) Pathos. D) Ethos . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethos . 20. A phrase or expression that evokes a picture or describes a scene A) Diction. B) Paradox. C) Slanting. D) Image/imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Image/imagery. ← 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