This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 263 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 263 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A question that is not meant to be answered but rather is asked to emphasize a point A) Rhetorical Device. B) Analogy. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Direct Address. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Question. 2. When an opinion is stated as if it were a fact, which it is not, and uses biased language A) Slanters. B) Rhetorical Analogy. C) Rhetorical Explanation. D) Rhetorical Definition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Explanation. 3. A prepared counter claim that keeps the argument moving is A) Procatalepis. B) Folding. C) Metaphor. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Procatalepis. 4. Julia squandered her money on designer clothes and expensive trips. A) Positive connotation. B) Neutral Connotation. C) Negative Connotation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative Connotation. 5. Using ideas or words of 2 or more sources as your own idea. A) Incremental plagiarism. B) Global plagiarism. C) Patchwork plagiarism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Patchwork plagiarism. 6. A student is writing to propose that her college allow eligible students to use their food stamps in the cafeteria. Which of the following best describes her primary purpose for writing? A) To record the event. B) To explore her thoughts on the matter. C) To demonstrate her knowledge of the subject. D) To inform others about the issue. E) To persuade others to do something. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) To persuade others to do something. 7. Please give me the day off. My grandmother died, and I really need to go spend time with my family. They need me to support them during this terrible time. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 8. School should start at 10a.m. because students will naturally be more awake and alert later in the morning. A) Logos appeal. B) Ethos appeal. C) Pathos appeal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos appeal. 9. When analyzing tone, it can be helpful to anticipate potential ..... A) Tone. B) Shifts. C) Diction. D) Rhetorical appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shifts. 10. Repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end. The beginning and the end are the two positions of strongest emphasis in a sentence, so by having the same word in both places, you call special attention to it A) Repeat. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Folding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeat. 11. "You have a heart of gold" is an example of what poetic device? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Anaphora. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 12. Greek for "timing" A) Persona. B) Weather. C) Ethos. D) Mythos. E) Requirement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weather. 13. We got a new Einstein in school today. A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Parallelism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 14. The day after Pearl Harbor, my grandfather signed up for duty, joined Patton's army, marched across Europe. This sentence includes the following A) Multi-connector, Transport. B) Anaphora, Tricolon, Simile. C) Asyndeton, Tricolon, Parallelism. D) Rhetorical Questions, Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asyndeton, Tricolon, Parallelism. 15. The art of writing or speaking persuasively to an audience A) Figurative Language. B) Influence. C) Author's (or speaker's) purpose. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 16. Bringing up a subject by denying that the very subject should be brought up at all. A) Apophasis. B) Folding. C) Dialogism. D) Expeditio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apophasis. 17. The exact opposite, contrast A) Antithesis. B) Antiseptic. C) Antithetic. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 18. An ad hominem attack A) Is a very effective debate strategy. B) Goes after a person's argument. C) Is always against a popular idea. D) Is an attack on the person, not the argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is an attack on the person, not the argument. 19. What is the figure of speech in which non-human things are given human attributes? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. As comedy, it distorts or exaggerates distinctive features of the original. As ridicule, it mimics the work by repeating and borrowing words, phrases, or characteristics in order to illuminate weaknesses in the original. A) Hyperbole. B) Satire. C) Parody. D) Narrative. 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