This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 220 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 220 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Close observation of a person or group, often for the purpose of monitoring behavior. A) Resistance. B) Authoritarianism. C) Surveillance. D) Censorship tags1984Real Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surveillance. 2. Judicial deals with A) Praise and persuading. B) Persuading and accusing. C) Accusing and blaming. D) None of those. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of those. 3. We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom. A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Litotes. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 4. They say he's closed the eyes of many a man and opened the eyes of many a woman. This is an example of ..... A) An allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Juxtaposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 5. "Red Bull gives you wings" A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Direct address. D) Folding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. What is a brief reference to a famous person or event-often from literature, history, Greek mythology, or the Bible? Can help to simplify complex ideas. Example: "He was a real Romeo with the ladies." A) Oxymoron. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 7. A statement that is implied A) Implicit. B) Explicit. C) Denotation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Implicit. 8. Which of the following is NOT a question you should ask when trying to evaluate the logic of an argument? A) Does the writer/speaker seem knowledgeable?. B) What claim is the author/speaker arguing?. C) Is the author/speaker's evidence relevant?. D) What evidence does the author/speaker use to support his/her claim?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Does the writer/speaker seem knowledgeable?. 9. The speaker's reason for creating the text; what they want the audience to think or do as a result of reading/viewing the text. A) Subject. B) Rhetorical Situation. C) Occasion. D) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Purpose. 10. The topic or issue being discussed in a text or speech A) Speaker. B) Occasion. C) Audience. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subject. 11. Ethos tries to appeal to someone's ..... A) Ethics and Credibility. B) Emotions and Feelings. C) Logic and Reason. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethics and Credibility. 12. Which is a rhetorical question? A) Would you trust someone with all your secrets?. B) How old are you?. C) Are you tired today?. D) How does she feel?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Would you trust someone with all your secrets?. 13. "History has shown time and again that absolute power corrupts absolutely." What type of rhetorical appeal is being used in this quote? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 14. Someone saying "What nice weather we are having" in the middle of a thunderstorm. A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Irony. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 15. POSITIVE CONNOTATION:In that time, she has expressed many ..... opinions. A) Militant. B) Questionable. C) Strong. D) Crazy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strong. 16. The opposition or juxtaposition of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction. A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Euphemism. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 17. Purposely describing an idea, event or person as less than important than in actuality; used to create irony or sarcasm A) Paradox. B) Pun. C) Understatement. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 18. Which appeal uses logic and is supported by facts, data, or statistics? A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 19. "Our expertise in roofing contracting is evidenced not only by our 50 years in the business and our staff of qualified technicians, but in the decades of satisfied customers who have come to expect nothing but the best." A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 20. In rhetoric, which of the following can be considered a text? A) An article. B) A video game. C) A music video. D) Almost anything books, movies, videos can be a text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Almost anything books, movies, videos can be a text. ← 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