This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 269 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 269 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Based on his many wins in trivia competitions, I trust him when it comes to advice on learning new facts. This is an example of ..... A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 2. Match the definition with the fallacy: "attacking the character of the person instead of the idea" A) To Man. B) Slippery Slope. C) Red Herring. D) Straw Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To Man. 3. Quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea, theme, or organizing principle. A) Deduction. B) Epigraph. C) Dissonance. D) Coherence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coherence. 4. Why doesn't this student's argument make sense?Student: "Mr. Bauer acts like he's better than everybody else. How do you expect him to know anything about math?" A) It is possible for Mr. Bauer to be a snob and still know about math. B) Nobody who is good at math is a nice person. C) Mr. Bauer doesn't really think he's better than other people. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is possible for Mr. Bauer to be a snob and still know about math. 5. Why does correct grammar create ethos? A) Your audience believes you more reasonable. B) Your audience feels for your point of view, it makes you more likable. C) Your audience believes you are credible because you sound educated. D) Your audience believes you to be knowledgeable in your subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Your audience believes you are credible because you sound educated. 6. The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or line A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Anastrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 7. Who delivers the speech "I Have a Dream" A) Abraham Lincoln. B) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. C) Rosa Parks. D) Katherine Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 8. Indirectly references a historical person, idea, or event or a current person, idea, or event. A) Unconnected. B) Hypophora. C) Anecdotes. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 9. All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they? A) Command words. B) Simile. C) Rhetorical question. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical question. 10. ..... means:two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. A) Apposition. B) Antimetabole. C) Parallelism. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 11. What are the three ways to represent something in the Charles Peirce Triad? A) Metaphorically, Indexically, Symbolically. B) Ironically, Indexically, Syntax. C) Ironically, Indexically, Symbolically. D) Ironically, Indexically, Semiotics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ironically, Indexically, Symbolically. 12. What pronouns would be used by a third person narrator? A) He, She, It. B) You. C) I. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He, She, It. 13. Colloquialism A) Language which occurs more often in speech than in writing. B) Replacing a harsh word with a more pleasant one. C) Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. It creates an emotionalfeeling of "building up" and that there is more to follow. D) A comparison of two things, often a dissimilar nature yet alike in certain aspects, in order to suggestthat what is true of one applies to the other. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language which occurs more often in speech than in writing. 14. A rhetorical question is one that ..... A) Is characterized by an unrealistic view of people and the world. B) Expresses a complete thought. C) Is asked for effect, not information. D) Is bitter or satirically worded. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is asked for effect, not information. 15. I walked the dog, and fed the cat, and milked the cow is an example of ..... A) The pun. B) Multi-connector. C) Romanticism. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multi-connector. 16. Select the option that makes the following sentence a hyperbole. The chicken noodle soup was really hot with pepper. A) The chicken noodle soup was so hot with pepper that my mouth was on fire. B) The chicken noodle soup was so hot with pepper, my eyes watered. C) The chicken noodle soup was so hot with pepper, but tasted really good. D) The chicken noodle soup was so hot with pepper, I could not eat it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The chicken noodle soup was so hot with pepper that my mouth was on fire. 17. Provides audience with facts, evidence, and statistics in order to persuade them. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 18. What transition word shows a contrast/difference? A) Meanwhile,. B) In other words,. C) Therefore,. D) However,. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) However,. 19. An exclamatory sentence ends with A) A comma,. B) A period. C) A question mark?. D) An exclamation point!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An exclamation point!. 20. Ethos is an appeal to the audience's ..... A) Respect and trust. B) Logical mind. C) Emotion. D) None of above. 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