This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 222 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 222 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is arrangement? A) The topic of a speech. B) The order of a speech. C) The expressions in a speech. D) How you perform a speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The order of a speech. 2. What is something that Kamala Harris mentions in her victory speech? A) Her first task to complete as VP. B) That while she is the first female VP-elect, she won't be the last. C) Healthcare. D) The current VP, Mike Pence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That while she is the first female VP-elect, she won't be the last. 3. The beginning of the story thatprovides the background information for the reader. Itreveals concepts like:setting (where), importantcharacters (who), the situation (why). All stories have astarting point! A) Inciting force. B) Setting. C) Exposition. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 4. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas usually in parallel structure A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Modifier. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 5. Technique of comparison to make a point A) Cause and effect. B) Sentence variety. C) Repition. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 6. "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided" is which device? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Metaphor. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 7. We push and pull like a magnet do A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Pun. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 8. ..... is a quality of an experience in life, or a work of art, that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy, and sorrow. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 9. The three elements of the Rhetorical Triangle are: A) Audience, Rhetoric, Subject. B) Audience, Subject, Purpose. C) Speaker, Subject, Audience. D) Speaker, Occasion, Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker, Subject, Audience. 10. Facts, research, surveys, statistics, charts or diagrams, definitions, and examples would support which rhetorical appeal? A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 11. "The small waves were the same, chucking the rowboat under the chin as we fished at anchor." A) Metaphor. B) Parallel structure. C) Unrelated. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 12. When someone uses negative language to smear the opponent; politicians use this a lot A) Name calling. B) Transfer. C) Testimonial. D) Snob appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Name calling. 13. "From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected?" Benjamin Franklin A) Rhetorical question. B) Restatement. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 14. Who talks about the 'death of the author' and the implausibility of a 'single theological meaning' of a text? A) Saussure. B) Barthes. C) Foucault. D) Richards. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Barthes. 15. A verse without rhyme but has iambic pentameter (Structure) A) Blank Verse. B) Free verse. C) Sonnet. D) None Listed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank Verse. 16. Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it. (E.B. White) A) Oxymoron. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 17. The subject matter of Buck O'Neil's speech is ..... A) Honoring those supported the Negro Leagues. B) Fans of baseball. C) Listing all of his accomplishments. D) Honoring Americans in the 1930's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Honoring those supported the Negro Leagues. 18. "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." Which rhetorical tool is this an example of? A) Citing facts and statistics. B) Proving speaker's credibility. C) Emotionally-charged language. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proving speaker's credibility. 19. The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses A) Modifier. B) Parallelism. C) Antecedent. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 20. "They rowed her in across the rolling foam-/The cruel, crawling foam." A) Metonymy. B) Pathetic Fallacy. C) Elegy. D) Colloquialism. E) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathetic Fallacy. ← 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