This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 206 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 206 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does logos appeal to? A) The audience's sense of logic or reason. B) The values that the audience and the writer share. C) The emotions of the audience, including their fears and hopes. D) The sense of betrayal the aundiece has come to expect from writers and speakers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The audience's sense of logic or reason. 2. An unexplained reference to a person, place, event, book, myth, or work of art. A) Allusion. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Illusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 3. If your boss says, "I'm letting you go, " instead of "You're fired!" She/he is using a ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 4. Where does Rhetoric start developing first? A) Latin world (Rome). B) Greek world (Athens). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greek world (Athens). 5. Choose A or B A) A. B) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 6. How can you recognize propaganda? A) By rejecting emotional content. B) By reading it several times. C) By refusing to believe anything that is unproven. D) By researching where the information came from. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By researching where the information came from. 7. Because Ronald visited the cemetery, A) Independent clause. B) Dependent clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependent clause. 8. Polite, indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh or rude A) Pun. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Oxymoron. D) Idiom. E) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Euphemism. 9. An appeal using emotion A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 10. The circumstances that form the setting of an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which can be fully understood and assessed. A) A story. B) Context. C) Imagery. D) Requirement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Context. 11. Choose the rhetorical appeal that is used in the following quote."As a dentist, I am qualified to tell you that White Strips damage tooth enamel." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 12. America is a melting pot. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. Demosthenes dealt A) Logography. B) Shorthand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logography. 14. A conclusion one can draw from the presented details. A) Inference. B) Inversion. C) Logical Appeal. D) Logical Fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inference. 15. When Neil Armstrong said, "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind, " he was using which rhetorical device? A) Rhetoric. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition. 16. Rhetoric is only used in public speaking. (True/False) A) False. B) Only in debates. C) Sometimes. D) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 17. An appeal to reason and facts A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Was taken. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 18. 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 false dilemma? 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: B) Either students go to school or they will commit crime. 19. "You're easy on the eyes. Hard on the heart." (Terri Clark) A) Unrelated. B) Antithesis. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 20. Virtue and vice A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Juxtaposition. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. ← 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