This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 224 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 224 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule called? A) Satire. B) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satire. 2. "The water sparkled like a thousand diamonds in the sunlight."What rhetorical device is used? A) Metephor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 3. What rhetorical device is being used in this movie quote?"Do I have a mark on my face? It hurts. Not so much here or here, but right here." A) Chiasmus. B) Pathos. C) Epistrophe. D) Meiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meiosis. 4. Which of these Rhetorical Devices does this best represent?"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury:we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery ..... We all have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut." A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 5. The writer's attempt to convince his reader to agree with him A) Argumentation. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Argumentation. 6. Who knows what Silicon Valley is up to these days A) Apostrophe. B) Metonymy. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 7. "Free at last ..... " A) Restatement. B) Analogy. C) Repetition. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 8. Which of the forms of evidence below is the weakest evidence a speaker can use to make a point? A) Examples. B) Contrasting Features. C) Hypothetical Situation. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypothetical Situation. 9. O speak about yourself as someone unimportant or bad; to belittle yourself A) Self-disparagement. B) Work. C) Emancipation. D) Rice sansae. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-disparagement. 10. Why is it important not to present a biased argument as a public speaker? A) Because it is unconvincing. B) Because it is immoral. C) Because it is unfair. D) Because it is pointless. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because it is unconvincing. 11. The point of highest interest in a literary work. A) Climax. B) Setting. C) Characterization. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climax. 12. Information that is incorrect but not spread in a malicious way (accidental) A) Disinformation. B) Satire. C) Misinformation. D) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Misinformation. 13. In the article, successful head coaches were compared to ..... A) Priests. B) Alphas. C) Saviors. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Priests. 14. What is the height of the action called? A) Climax. B) Rising Action. C) Introduction. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climax. 15. ..... is a comparison of two or more things using 'like' or 'as'. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Theme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 16. A figure of speech that compares or equates two or more things that have something in common A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 17. What would differ about the audience for a letter versus a speech? A) The audience for a letter would be more formal. B) The audience for a letter must always be specifically mentioned. C) The audience for a speech would be more broad and possibly be more than 1 person or group while the audience for a letter would be narrower. D) A speech can be written, published, or on tv. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The audience for a speech would be more broad and possibly be more than 1 person or group while the audience for a letter would be narrower. 18. When an object, animal, or idea is given human attributes/ characteristics A) Personification. B) Allegory. C) Symbolism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 19. Karen is rich; ....., her cousin Kate is poor. A) Therefore. B) However. C) Otherwise. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) However. 20. A stylistic device in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions A) Motif. B) Chaismus. C) Polysyndeton. D) Unconnected. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unconnected. ← 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