This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 252 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 252 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Statements:Some fruits are mangos. All mangos are guavas. No guava is a banana. Conclusions:I. All fruits are bananas. II. No mango is a banana A) If only conclusion I follows. B) If only conclusion II follows. C) If either conclusion I or conclusion II follows. D) If both conclusions I and II follows. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) If only conclusion II follows. 2. When the reader understands closely what the character is feeling. A) Empathy. B) Catharsis. C) Generalization. D) Comic Relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Empathy. 3. What is an appeal to ignorance? A) It is an argument that suggests taking a minor action will lead to major and sometimes ludicrous consequences. 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) This fallacy means against the "man" or "against the person.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When a lack of evidence is taken to be the evidence. 4. What can allusions provide insight into? A) The author's intentions, themes, and messages. B) The use of rhetorical devices in the passage. C) The historical context of the text. D) The structure and organization of the passage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The author's intentions, themes, and messages. 5. Gandhi use a ..... tone to show his willingness to negotiate and cooperate with the British. A) Stubborn. B) Conciliatory. C) Obstinate. D) Belicose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conciliatory. 6. Kind of the opposite of jargon-it's when you use informal (or even slang) words. For example, in Of Mice and Men, George says, "I ain't sure it's good water ..... looks kinda scummy." Both "ain't" and "kinda" are examples of this. A) Colloquialism. B) Syntax. C) Diction. D) Ambiguous diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colloquialism. 7. What is a restatement? A) The study of effective language. B) The goal, what the author wants to accomplish. C) Parallel structure. D) State something again in a different way. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) State something again in a different way. 8. Identifying the features of a text AND explaining how the author uses these to develop the meaning or to achieve a particular effect. A) Purpose. B) Analysis. C) Requirement. D) Syllogism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analysis. 9. What distinction does President Lincoln make in paragraph 3 about both sides of the war? A) Lincoln argues that the Union wanted to avoid war all together, while the Confederacywanted nothing more than to fight. B) Lincoln acknowledges that the Union was the first to declare war in order to maintain the United States and that, perhaps, they should have let the Confederacy peacefullysecede. C) Lincoln emphasizes the fault of the Confederacy for seeking to destroy the larger union, with all states united, but does not condemn them as blood-thirsty. D) Lincoln stresses the idea that neither side actively sought war; their motivations mayhave been different, but neither party wanted to declare war if negotiation was possible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lincoln stresses the idea that neither side actively sought war; their motivations mayhave been different, but neither party wanted to declare war if negotiation was possible. 10. Independent or Dependent? Unless my dad comes home. A) Independent. B) Dependent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependent. 11. "Can anyone deny the beauty of a starlit night?"What rhetorical devise is used? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Simile. C) Parallelism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 12. Higher education is strongly correlated to higher earnings late in life. If you are interested in maintaining a middle-class life, the most likely way to do it is to go to college. This is an example of ..... A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 13. My opponent raises a good point, but can we really trust him? I mean, he moved to this town only two years ago and everyone knows that his wife left him. A) Slippery Slope. B) Straw Man. C) To the people. D) To the man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To the man. 14. Satire that criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humor. A) Horatio. B) Juvenile. C) Horatian. D) Juvenalian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Horatian. 15. Which trope or scheme is used in the following sentence: "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts." A) Anaphora. B) Allusion. C) Euphemism. D) Colloquialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 16. If I were trying to sell a car to a family of 4, what type of appeal would be MOST beneficial to get them to buy the car? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 17. Propaganda technique using short phrases or words to promote positive feelings or emotions A) Bias. B) Glittering generalities. C) Transfer. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glittering generalities. 18. Any stylistic device or resource of language that an author or speaker uses to help persuade or make a desired impact on his/her audience. A) Rhetorical Appeal. B) Rhetorical Device. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Rhetorical Analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Device. 19. Observation:The bakery across the street always has a line out the door. Conclusion:The bakery sells delicious treats A) Abductive Reasoning Example. B) Deductive Reasoning Example. C) Inductive Reasoning Example. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inductive Reasoning Example. 20. What animal is compared to the machine that sucks out the poison from Mildred's stomach? A) A salamander. B) A Toad. C) A Phoenix. D) A Snake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Snake. ← 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