This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 244 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 244 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Speakers appeal to this to emotionally motivate their audience. More specific appeals to this might play on the audience's values, desires, and hopes, on the one hand, or fears and prejudices, on the other. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Persona. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 2. If someone is using an "anecdote" to persuade, what are they doing? A) Repeating their point. B) Making their opinion clear. C) Using a personal story to make a point. D) Comparing to something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using a personal story to make a point. 3. Define FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE A) Uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful. B) Language that is literal. C) The process of forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences from facts or premises. D) When writers "push back" against the other side in some way. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful. 4. "My signature is no John Hancock, " would be an example of ..... A) Allusion. B) Pathos. C) Anaphora. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 5. The three Rhetorical Appeals A) Requirement. B) Ethos, pathos, and logos. C) Rhetoric. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos, pathos, and logos. 6. What Rhetorical Appeal is used here? "You will never be satisfied in life if you don't seize this opportunity. Do you want to live the rest of your years thinking about what would have happened if you just jumped when you had the chance?" A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 7. At a later time A) Abrogated. B) Forfeited. C) Subsequently. D) Treachery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subsequently. 8. He had the heart of a lamb he had the hide of a wolf. A) No change. B) Lamb, but he had. C) Lamb; but he had. D) Lamb. While he had. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lamb, but he had. 9. A figure of speech featuring a phrase that utilizes negative wording or terms to express a positive assertion or statement. A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Hyperbole. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Litotes. 10. The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginnings of words A) Analogy. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 11. A brief reference to a person, place, event, or passage in a work of literature or the Bible assumed to be sufficiently well known to be recognized by the reader A) Allusion. B) Anecdote. C) Aphorism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. Choose A, B, or C A) A. B) B. C) C. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 13. What is the meaning of symbolism? A) The meaning of symbolism is idea that things represent different things. B) Symbolism is the practice of using signs and symbols in communication. C) Symbolism refers to the use of metaphors in literature. D) Symbolism is the study of symbols in different cultures. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The meaning of symbolism is idea that things represent different things. 14. What is the definition of author's purpose? A) The reason why the author/speaker is writing or speaking. B) Who the author/speaker wants to hear or read their writing or speech. C) People who the author does NOT want to read their writing. D) The subject the author is writing about. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reason why the author/speaker is writing or speaking. 15. Which of the following options below has the following definition:saying one thing and meaning another verbal, situational, dramatic A) Metaphor. B) Invective. C) Simile. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 16. A speaker's or writer's choice of words-they can be formal, informal, colloquial, full of slang, poetic, etc. A) Diction. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 17. What is the definition of exaggeration? A) Making an unfair, too broad assumption about a person or a group of people. B) Overstating something; stretching the truth. C) When you focus and attack someone's personality, character, or other qualities instead of the opponents supporting evidence. D) Assumptions about all members of a group or all of a certain type of thing; can be misleading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overstating something; stretching the truth. 18. Experience, authority, and credible sources are strategies of ethos. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. The Rhetorical Appeal which speaks to one's Logic and Reasoning is called: A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 20. An example of a simile is: "I really do like ice cream" A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. ← 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