This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 243 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 243 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Based on the article, there has been a decline in students getting summer jobs due to busy study and school schedules. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. What type of reasoning takes a set of observations and creates a theory to explain them? A) Deductive. B) Inductive. C) Abductive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abductive. 3. The place filled by a replacement or substitute A) Subsequently. B) Stead. C) Sloth. D) Confiscation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stead. 4. Showing what can be expected because of what has happened before ..... Example:When it rains, the ground gets wet. You walk outside and your driveway is wet; therefore, it must have rained. A) Irony. B) Hyperbole. C) Logical reasoning. D) Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logical reasoning. 5. Evaluating, analyzing, and describing elements of a rhetorical situation (ex. Using SPACECAT) in order to determine how these impacted the success of failure of an argument is called ..... A) Rhetorical Analysis. B) Rhetorical Appeals. C) Rhetorical Devices. D) Text/Book Review. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Analysis. 6. Your argument is about brushing your teeth. A good example of ethos for your evidence would be ..... A) An interview with a dentist. B) Facts about teeth brushing. C) Pictures of gross teeth. D) Facts about toothpaste. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An interview with a dentist. 7. Rhetorical appeal concerned with how to reach an audience emotionally A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Tone. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 8. What is an appeal to common practice? A) They argue that something must be okay (correct, reasonable) because it is a typical behavior or because most people do it. B) When a lack of evidence is taken to be the evidence. C) When someone misrepresents someone's argument to make it easier to attack. D) An "either-or" type of argument. Two choices are presented, when more might exist, and the claim is made that one is false and one is true-or one is acceptable and the other is not. Often, there are other alternatives, or both choices might be false or true. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They argue that something must be okay (correct, reasonable) because it is a typical behavior or because most people do it. 9. What is Flow? A) Replacing a harsh word with a more pleasant one. B) Serve to separate and to introduce the several divisions of a subject or thought. C) Not the thing or idea the word stands for (denotation), but the attitudes, feelings andemotions aroused by the word. D) The continuity, or coherence, among the sentences of a paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The continuity, or coherence, among the sentences of a paragraph. 10. "The setting forth of events that have occurred or might have occurred." is the Ad Herennium's definition of which element of Arrangement? A) Division. B) Proof. C) Narration. D) Refutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narration. 11. Maybe I can swim five or ten more minutes ..... Remember what Dr. Keatinge said:once your temperature starts to drop, it will drop very fast ..... This is the place where people make mistakes ..... when they push too far into the unknown. This thought while Lynne Cox is swimming is an example of: A) Telos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 12. I want to speak not to the CEOs but to the secretaries of the company; not to the senators but to the janitors; not to those who were lucky enough to be ushered into this beautiful space today but those who stood in line for hours waiting to get in. And to those of you who are outside who did not get in ..... this is your day ..... Jennifer Granholm, "Remembering Rosa Parks" What is Granholm's most likely purpose for including this passage in her speech "Remembering Rosa Parks" ? A) To create a mental image of the type of person that Rosa Parks was. B) To establish herself as a personal friend of many people in the audience. C) To allow the audience to recognize the reason they are here today. D) To make a connection between the people in the audience and Rosa Parks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To make a connection between the people in the audience and Rosa Parks. 13. Conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession A) Anaphora. B) Polysyndeton. C) Hyperbole. D) Unconnected. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polysyndeton. 14. Prove the validity of an idea or point of view by presenting sound reasoning, discussion that thoroughly convinces the reader; opinions and proposals A) Argumentation. B) Cause/effect. C) Classification. D) Criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Argumentation. 15. Select the text where the author's tone is positive: A) The movie was amazing! I was laughing so hard I cried!. B) You can only watch infantile humor for so long before you want to punch yourself in the face. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The movie was amazing! I was laughing so hard I cried!. 16. What is the following an example of:Withdrawal of U.S. troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public; the more U.S. troops come home, the more will be demanded. A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 17. What are the three types of rhetorical appeals? A) Time, space, and distance. B) Height, width, and length. C) Logic, emotion, and credibility. D) What, how, and why. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logic, emotion, and credibility. 18. What is purpose, as it relates to rhetoric? A) The specific occasion or event that prompted the message to be written. B) The reason why the speaker is conveying the message. C) The circumstances surrounding the situation. D) Appealing to shared values in an attempt to connect to the audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The reason why the speaker is conveying the message. 19. To ..... is to change someone's actions or beliefs through reasoning or argument. A) Inform. B) Entertain. C) Persuade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuade. 20. What is the definition of bias? A) When a person prefers something over another thing. B) The quality of being trustworthy and believable. C) Misleading information that is used to manipulate. D) A person who is not influenced by personal feelings or opinions when reviewing facts. 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