This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 267 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 267 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The rhetorical device of an anecdote is ..... A) Using extreme exaggeration to make a point. B) A word that sounds how it is spelled (usually an auditory word). C) A comparison between two things using like or as. D) A personal story used to drawn in the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A personal story used to drawn in the reader. 2. What is the fourth (4) sentence's purpose? A) Author's support of thesis/ central idea (discuss rhetorical supports). B) Author's intended audience. C) Author name, genre, title, theme/ central idea. D) Purpose/ motive:why the author is writing this . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Author's intended audience. 3. Getting a NBA player to sell a basketball sneaker appeals to A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Ethos and pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 4. A figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation sound less important or serious than it is. A) Hyperbole. B) Understatement. C) Euphemism. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 5. The art of persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other techniques. A) Concession. B) Persona. C) Polemic. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 6. What is the effect of using hyperbole in a speech or composition? A) A gross exaggeration to make an effect or to highlight something. B) The repetition of the same consonant sounds. C) The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next. D) The repetition of a phrase for emphasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A gross exaggeration to make an effect or to highlight something. 7. Supporting a statement by repeating the statement using different words. A) Logical fallacies. B) Circular reasoning. C) Hasty generalization. D) It does not follow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circular reasoning. 8. Tick tock on the clock but the party don't stop. A) Irony. B) Rhetorical question. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 9. One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed A) Viewers. B) Judge. C) Speaker. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Audience. 10. Questions asked but not answered because the answer is obvious A) Rhetorical devices. B) Rhetoric. C) Rhetorical question. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical question. 11. "While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me." This quote appeals to A) Logic. B) Credibility. C) Emotions. D) Desire to do the right thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emotions. 12. Another name for combining juxtaposition and parallel structure is: A) Anaphora. B) Multi-connector. C) Parallel structure. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 13. The introduction serves to capture the reader's interest, provide background information, present your thesis statement, and (in longer essays) to summarize the structure of the body. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Which of the following is the definition of categorical claim? A) Assumptions about all members of a group or all of a certain type of thing; can be misleading. B) Overstating something; stretching the truth. C) Making an unfair, too broad assumption about a person or a group of people. D) When you focus and attack someone's personality, character, or other qualities instead of the opponents supporting evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assumptions about all members of a group or all of a certain type of thing; can be misleading. 15. A figure of speech that implies a similarity between things otherwise dissimilar; always uses the words like or as to introduce the comparison A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 16. One way Kobe used the rhetorical appeal of pathos in his farewell speech was: A) By making his audience cry because he was going to die. B) By making his audience laugh when he talked about how on any other night people tell him to pass the ball, but not during his farewell game. C) By explaining that he is a die-hard Lakers fan and that he spent 20 years with the organization. D) By using logical reasoning and facts to explain to the audience why he is a great player. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By making his audience laugh when he talked about how on any other night people tell him to pass the ball, but not during his farewell game. 17. "My three decades of experience in public service make me the ideal candidate for your mayor."Which appeal is this an example of? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 18. A memoir concentrates on a relationship with ..... A) Genuine ideas. B) Others. C) Yourself. D) Inner thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Others. 19. Which logical fault is this:Smoking isn't harmful. My grandfather smoked a pack a day and lived until 97 A) False dilemma. B) Irrelevant quotation. C) Reasoning by anecdote. D) Reasing by question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reasoning by anecdote. 20. One of the articles is about Trump's use of figurative language. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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