This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 260 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 260 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Anything that represents something larger than itself A) Symbol. B) Simile. C) Synesthesia. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 2. Appealing to logic or reason A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 3. "Stated clearly and in detail" is the definition of ..... A) Explicit Language. B) Implicit Language. C) Figurative Language. D) Loaded Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Explicit Language. 4. The Junior Achievement ad uses what kind of rhetorical device? A) Rhetorical question. B) Rhetorical comparison. C) To man. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 5. Which term refers to a rhetor's position in relation to their argument? A) Stance. B) Situated ethos. C) Arete. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stance. 6. Bias is a prejudice in favor or against one thing, person, or group.A. True A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Many stories begin with this to supply the reader with essential background information. A) Exposition. B) Allusion. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 8. Why is ethos important in writing? A) To establish an emotional connection with the audience. B) To appeal to the audience's emotions. C) To establish credibility and trustworthiness. D) To recognize and act on the unique qualities of a given moment in time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To establish credibility and trustworthiness. 9. Device? "A time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to reap, a time to laugh, a time to weep." The Byrds (1965). A) Analogy. B) Epistrophe. C) Anaphora. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 10. Whenever you write, you express (or downplay) your stance through the words you use and the other ways your text conveys an attitude toward your subject and audience. Stance is conveyed through your A) Genre. B) Medium. C) Tone. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 11. "I have a dream" A) Repetition. B) Analogy. C) Parallelism. D) Restatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 12. What literary device does the following passage from "The Gettysburg Address" use:We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Assonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 13. Which of the following is NOT an analogy A) Telephones and bananas have a similar shape which is why they fit in our hands. B) Life is like a box of chocolates. C) Mouse is to computer as pencil is to paper. D) Cow is to mammal as snake is to reptile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telephones and bananas have a similar shape which is why they fit in our hands. 14. Describes specific, observable things rather than ideas or qualities. A) Catharsis. B) Allusion. C) Concrete Language. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete Language. 15. A series of events that represents, or is a story (often told chronologically) A) Litotes. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Narrative. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative. 16. Which of these would most likely be used as a rhetorical question? A) What do we have to fear?. B) When should I arrive?. C) How has this happened?. D) Can we not face our fears?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can we not face our fears?. 17. . A character in the story who relates the actions through his or her own perspective. A) Limited omniscient. B) Omniscient. C) First Person Narrator. D) Steam of Consciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) First Person Narrator. 18. Speeches, political cartoons, and advertisements can be considered all of the following EXCEPT A) Cultural product. B) Visuals. C) Rhetoric. D) Texts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Visuals. 19. A way of writing or organizing ideas that contributes to the message and purpose by being particularly engaging to the audience, effectively communicating content or appropriate to the occasion. A) Implicit Thesis. B) Rhetorical Mode. C) SPACECAT. D) Demographics of Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Mode. 20. The weather was raining and dark stormy clouds hung in the sky. The air was oppressively heavy. A) Mood. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. ← 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