This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 259 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 259 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning A) Allegory. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 2. State of being well known for a bad quality A) Infamy. B) Solicitation. C) Torpor. D) Specter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infamy. 3. "To stop too fearful, and too faint to go." A) Compound sentence. B) Chiasmus. C) Syllogism. D) Euphony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chiasmus. 4. A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen is ..... A) Anxiety. B) Suspense. C) Dilemma. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suspense. 5. Techniques used to influence opinions, emotions, attitudes or behavior A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Propaganda. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Propaganda. 6. He feels buried under a mountain of work. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Anaphora. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. The clouds held their breath for a brief moment before letting loose upon the earth. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 8. The instance of placing two opposite things close together to create a contrasting effect. A) Juxtaposition. B) Loaded Language. C) Call to Action. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 9. "Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?" A) Emotionally Charged Language. B) Parallel Structure. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Appeal to Audience's Feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Question. 10. A taunting, sneering, cutting, or caustic remark (see irony) A) Aphorism. B) Sarcasm. C) Allusion. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarcasm. 11. Annie, are you okay? Will you tell us that you're okay? A) Assonance. B) Rhetorical question. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 12. What type of reasoning is making an argument using specific observations to make a broad conclusion? A) INDUCTIVE. B) DEDUCTIVE. C) ABDUCTIVE. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) INDUCTIVE. 13. A device that combines a television and a surveillance camera, used by the Party to monitor citizens A) Big Brother. B) Proles. C) Telescreen. D) Vaporize tags1984. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Telescreen. 14. An essay can be composed of one clear, complete paragraph. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. A type of writing used to explain a topic. A) Exposition. B) Narration. C) Description. D) Argumentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 16. What important lesson did Scrooge learn from the Spirit of Christmas Past? A) Scrooge has the ability to help those around him and he should. B) Scrooge needs to be nicer to poor people. C) People in his life are suffering because they refuse to work harder. D) People around him were suffering because of his stinginess. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scrooge has the ability to help those around him and he should. 17. What is the best way to emphasize a point when giving a speech? A) Ask your audience to pay attention. B) Speed up the pacing of your speech. C) Raise the level of your voice. D) Clap your hands together. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Raise the level of your voice. 18. A figure of speech in which a direct comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. A) Simile. B) Motif. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 19. Presenting only two options as if they are the only possible choices, ignoring other possibilities or options. (a) A) A False dichotomy. B) Slippery slope. C) Strawman. D) Appeal to authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A False dichotomy. 20. Repetition of vowel sounds in a line of work A) Assonance. B) Extended metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. ← 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