This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 247 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 247 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Let Melissa shake her curls, but let her curls not shake Melissa. A) Euphemism. B) Antimetabole. C) Synecdoche. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antimetabole. 2. Ethos is the appeal of A) Logic. B) Emotions. C) Morals and ethics. D) Appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morals and ethics. 3. Trump is known for using metaphors related to various things, like sports and illnesses. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Refers to an attempt to disapprove, contradict, or argue to overcome an opposing reasoning or evidence by introducing another reasoning and evidence to destroy the effect of the previous one. A) Rebuttal. B) Refutation. C) Repetition. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rebuttal. 5. What type of rhetorical appeal is this?"I'm not just invested in this community-I love every building, every business, every hard-working member of this town." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 6. What did Nelson Mandela emphasize in his inaugural speech? A) Reconciliation and unity. B) Promoting violence and division. C) Advocating for racial segregation. D) Uplifting the wealthy and privileged. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reconciliation and unity. 7. Everything is fair in love and war The above is an example of a(n) ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Juxtaposition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 8. What did the fish say, when it hit the wall? DamA play on words A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Pun. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 9. 19 Her efforts to deter crime..... A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. 10. When an author repeats a word, phrase, or idea more than once in order to emphasize its importance. A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Diction. D) Maxim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 11. Which is NOT a branch of Philosophy? A) Logic. B) Axiology. C) Religion. D) Metaphysics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Religion. 12. Poetry with rhyme, structure, and literary devices A) Open form. B) Closed form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Closed form. 13. The author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox A) Invective. B) Litotes. C) Oxymoron. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 14. Figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory; a TWO WORD paradox; two words with contrary or apparently contradictory meanings occurring next to each other, and, which, nonetheless, evoke some measure of truth. A) Multi-connector. B) Oxymoron. C) Enumeration. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 15. What techniques do propagandists use A) Lying and deception. B) To men's arguments. C) All answers correct. D) Slogans and symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All answers correct. 16. The art of effective communication A) Deduction. B) Rhetoric. C) Induction. D) Colloquial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 17. A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 18. Giving inanimate objects human characteristics. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 19. Which rhetorical appeal is being used in the sentence below? A child is shown covered in bug bites after using an inferior bug spray. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 20. In a piece of writing, who controls the TONE? A) The reader. B) The author. C) Tiny robots. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The author. ← 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