This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "And the government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."This quote is an example of repetition of a phrase at the end of a successive clauses A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Anastrophe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 2. True or false:Randall adopted the same persona when appealing to Brandon and Kim for the $ 1.50. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. A) Facts and figures. B) Cause and effect scenario. C) Shock tactics. D) Appeal to pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Facts and figures. 4. The apartment was on the top floor-a small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath. A) Rhetorical Question. B) Parallel Structure. C) Repetition. D) Biblical Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 5. Which rhetorical appeal uses logical reasoning and arguments? A) Weather. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 6. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury:we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery ..... We also have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut." What type of Rhetoric is being used? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 7. Is when you don't give credit for a particular idea or quote (plagiarism) A) Global. B) Patchwork. C) Incremental. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incremental. 8. The initial evidence-or reasoning-for a claim. This is an answer to the question "why do you think your claim is true?" A) Backing. B) Pathos. C) Grounds. D) Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grounds. 9. The following statement is an example of what literary term?facts, statistics, imagery, first-person pronouns, connotative diction A) Pedantic. B) Rhetorical devices. C) Ellipsis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical devices. 10. The art of effective and persuasive speaking and writing is the definition of: A) Diction. B) Hyperbole. C) Rhetoric. D) Requirement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 11. There can only be one claim in a text. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Reversing the customary (subject first, then verb, then complement) order of elements in a sentence or phrase A) Stanza. B) Slant rhyme. C) Parallelism. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inversion. 13. The sudden boom of thunder arouse him from his ..... A) Torpor. B) Respite. C) Suffrage. D) Infamy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Torpor. 14. What is the definition of the logical fallacy, ad hominem? A) A conclusion is an attack on the character of a person rather than his or her opinions or arguments. B) A conclusion that presents what most people, or a group of people think, in order to persuade one to think the same way. C) A conclusion that avoids the key issues, often by avoiding opposing arguments rather than addressing them. D) A conclusion that oversimplifies an opponent's viewpoint and then attacks that hollow argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A conclusion is an attack on the character of a person rather than his or her opinions or arguments. 15. Identify the figurative language used in the sentence:'The wind whispered through the trees.' A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. You send a text message to your best friend. Your best friend reads the message. Your best friend is the A) Intended audience. B) Read audience. C) Weird just like me. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intended audience. 17. A technique by which the writer or speaker anticipates objections his audience may have to his argument and points out the error in their objections A) Allusion. B) Appeal to authority. C) Correction of erroneous views. D) Anticipation of objection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anticipation of objection. 18. Assumption A) A statement upon which an argument is based. B) Ideas that people accept without any proof. C) The speaker's main idea or main argument. D) The circumstances that bring a text into existence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ideas that people accept without any proof. 19. What type of rhetorical appeal is this?"For just 10 cents a day, you can help save the lives of countless children." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 20. The choice of words an author uses to convey ideas to a reader. A) Diction. B) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. ← 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