This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 268 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 268 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A speaker's choice of words. Analysis of word choices looks at they add to the speaker's message. A) Diction. B) Sarcasm. C) Alliteration. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 2. Rhetorical appeal to the credibility of the speaker. A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Believable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 3. This fallacy presents an issue in terms of exaggerated threats or dangers. A) Scare tactics. B) To Man. C) Bandwagon. D) Dogmatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scare tactics. 4. What did Fezziwig do every Christmas Eve for his employees? A) He fired all of his employees and hired new ones. B) He made them work overtime. C) He gave them all the day off. D) He closed his business early and threw a large, rambunctious party for his employees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He closed his business early and threw a large, rambunctious party for his employees. 5. All of the following nouns are ABSTRACT except A) Kindness. B) Fear. C) Peace. D) Flower. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flower. 6. Good things come to those who wait A) Idiom. B) Euphemism. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 7. " I gradually gained a bit of satisfaction from being considered an extremist. Was not Jesus an extremist in love? ..... Will we be extremists for hate or extremists for love?This is an example of: A) Anaphora. B) Anecdote. C) Metaphor. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 8. Never was there more happiness. Never was there more joy. Never was there more freedom. A) Repetition. B) Inclusive language. C) Emotive language. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 9. Which of the three components is the most effective? A) Ethos:you have to be able to trust the person. B) Pathos:you have to be able to feel. C) Logos:you need factual information. D) All three are equally important. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All three are equally important. 10. Descriptive language used to appeal to a reader's senses:touch, taste, smell, sound, and sight. A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Parallelism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 11. What is another term for author's attitude? A) Mood. B) Credibility. C) Bias. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 12. I enjoy reading this new magazine ....., it has good articles. A) Moreover. B) Nonetheless. C) However. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moreover. 13. "Free at last, free at last." This is an example of which rhetorical device? A) Epistrophe. B) Folding. C) Repetition. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 14. The use of labels or loaded words or language to create negative feelings about a person, group, or thing. A) Snob Appeal. B) Name Calling. C) Bandwagon. D) Testimonial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Name Calling. 15. If a free society can not help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich" is an example of ..... A) Parallelism. B) Balance sentence. C) Parallelism/balance sentence. D) Cumulative sentence/parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism/balance sentence. 16. " ..... our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating:'For Whites Only." ' A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 17. A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. These can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities. Ex. "Plan ahead:it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark" -Richard Cushing A) Allusion. B) Commonality. C) Allegory. D) Illusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 18. "Mom, did you know that, according to newsweek.com, having a cell phone at school does not lead to lower grades. A study of 1, 700 high school students found that there is absolutely no correlation between these two things. I can have my phone without my grades suffering." A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 19. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words"This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent" A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. "These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve." A) Pathos. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Parallelism. 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