This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 248 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 248 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The birds chirped this morning and there was a pearly white mist over the lake. A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Irony. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 2. Is a loaded question similar to innuendo? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 3. A way to appeal to PATHOS is ..... A) Include information in graphs and tables. B) Explain why something is morally right. C) Tell a story that makes people feel a certain way. D) Give false information. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tell a story that makes people feel a certain way. 4. What literary device is present below?Cece sells shells on the seashore. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. "To work together, to pray together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together" A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Repetition. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 6. The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells). Although the term is not used frequently in the multiple-choice section, you can look for this in any essay passage. It can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, supply a musical sound, and/or echo the sense of the passage. A) Litotes. B) Hyperbole. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 7. Which logical fault is this:Jane is an intelligent, insightful, well-educated and personable individual, which begs the question:why does she stay at that dead-end job? A) False dilemma. B) Irrelevant quotation. C) Reasoning by anecdote. D) Reasoning by question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reasoning by question. 8. "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master." ~Christian Lous Lange~ The main message in this quote is that ..... A) Technology is always dangerous. B) Technology is dangerous when is rules us. C) Technology is useful. D) Technology is a servant always. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Technology is dangerous when is rules us. 9. What rhetorical device attributes human qualities to non-human entities or abstract concepts? A) Personification. B) Paradox. C) Anaphora. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 10. In SOAPSTone, the second S is representative of the main focus or idea of the nonfiction piece. A) Speaker. B) Subject. C) Specialty. D) Special Interest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject. 11. True or False:Good rhetoric urges action. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Order of importance A) A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it. B) A method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics. C) Occurs when the writer assumes that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident. D) To describe by specifying the characteristics or qualities of; characterize. E) When a speaker introduces an irrelevant issue or piece of evidence to divert attention from the subject of the speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics. 13. Speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing A) Author. B) Writer. C) Persona. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persona. 14. This rhetorical technique is a question given by the author to provoke thought that does not require an answer. A) Loaded Question. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Open Question. D) Probing Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Question. 15. An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language A) Invective. B) Homily. C) Satire. D) Sarcasm. E) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Invective. 16. How do we know what the mood of a text is? A) How you feel while reading/viewing/listening to it. B) How the intended audience would feel. C) We look at the word choice of the text. D) We look at the author's attitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How the intended audience would feel. 17. Persuasion is the purse or intention of convincing another to act or think. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 18. What is the meaning of parallelism? A) The use of components in a sentence that are not related to each other in any way. B) The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically different in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. C) A parallel construction in which similar or repeated words, phrases, clauses, or sentence structure appear together. D) The use of components in a sentence that are arranged in a circular pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A parallel construction in which similar or repeated words, phrases, clauses, or sentence structure appear together. 19. Which one is not a definition of "rhetoric" ? A) Discourse. B) The study of effective speaking and writing. C) Dialectic. D) The art of persuasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialectic. 20. A mistaken belief that one event must be caused by another. A) To Man. B) Loaded question. C) Correlation does not equal causation. D) Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Correlation does not equal causation. ← 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