This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 210 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 210 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is author's purpose? A) The way the author views a topic or subject, and his/her attitude toward it. B) An author's reason for writing, such as to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. C) The way the author explains something. D) The way the author feels about their writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An author's reason for writing, such as to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. 2. A comparison between two objects without using the words like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Claim. C) Simile. D) Analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 3. Which appeal uses EMOTION to persuade? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 4. Which two things are being compared in this sentence:Jimmy tried to help her, but when he got to his feet, his legs were jello. A) Jimmy and Jello. B) Legs and Jello. C) Her and Jello. D) Feet and Legs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Legs and Jello. 5. A figure of speech in which a comparison or analogy is made between two seemingly unlike things, as in the phrase "evening of life." A) Pun. B) Satire. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 6. "Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God." A) Alliteration. B) Parallelism. C) Concrete. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 7. ..... we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. Which of the following questions would be helpful when considering design? A) Would headings help you organize your material?. B) What is the appropriate look for your writing situation?. C) Both of these questions. D) Neither of these questions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of these questions. 9. The circumstances in which writing or speaking occurs and the emerging aim or overarching goal that underlies many of the speaker's decisions. A) Context/Purpose. B) Counter Argument. C) Ethos. D) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Context/Purpose. 10. The action of reasoning systematically in support of an idea A) Claim. B) Thesis. C) Reasoning. D) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Argument. 11. Our captain's ..... plan would allow us to sneak around the enemy and capture the objective without a problem. A) Enfranchised. B) Ingenious. C) Inevitable. D) Ineffectual. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ingenious. 12. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures. JK Rowling's first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 13. "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet, and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street." A) Multi-connector. B) Hyperbole. C) Understatement. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 14. What is this an example of? I once had a border collie. She was so smart. Every morning, I'd open up the front door and she'd run out, pick up the newspaper, and deliver it to my husband at the breakfast table. A) External conflict. B) Allusion. C) Anecdote. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anecdote. 15. Repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis A) Anaphora. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 16. Which appeal persuades to the audiences emotions and feelings. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 17. The goal; what the author wants to accomplish is called ..... A) Tone. B) Refute. C) Purpose. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purpose. 18. What is a counterargument? A) The other side of the argument. B) What you are trying to prove. C) Why the other side is wrong. D) Proof to support your claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The other side of the argument. 19. Which rhetorical device is being used in the following sentence:'Her eyes were diamonds, sparkling in the sunlight.'? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. Providing evidence A) Definition. B) Exemplification. C) Description. D) Narration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exemplification. ← 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