This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 270 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 270 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point A) Anecdote. B) Antidote. C) Analogy. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anecdote. 2. The appeal to the audience's emotions. Example: "Choose our security system because no price is too high for peace of mind." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 3. Argumentative Terms:the argument against a claim (what the other side would say if they disagreed with a claim) A) Counterclaim. B) Fallacy. C) Author's purpose. D) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Counterclaim. 4. A statement of belief A) Degenerate. B) Hallowed. C) Prodigious. D) Creed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Creed. 5. Asked to engage the audience without expecting a response ..... Example:when your teacher asks "Are you ten years old?!" A) Ethos. B) Parallelism. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Logical Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Question. 6. Repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses A) Anaphora. B) Understatement. C) Anecdote. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 7. We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope (Romans 5:3-4). A) Epistrophe. B) Folding. C) Hendiadys. D) Diacope. E) Unconnected. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Folding. 8. When might it be permissible to skip the introduction? A) The audience is well-disposed and the topic is short and simple. B) You have a hostile audience in front of you with a lot to say. C) The audience is tired and you not intend to bore them with an intro. D) Only a few people are present and it would not benefit the speech to bother introducing the topic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The audience is well-disposed and the topic is short and simple. 9. A statement designed to prompt an immediate response from the audience A) Logos. B) Rhetorical question. C) Call-to-action. D) Call-me-maybe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Call-to-action. 10. When the writer/speaker appeals to the feelings of the reader; drawing pity from an audience; inspiring anger from an audience, etc A) Repetition. B) Rhetorical question. C) Logos or logical persuasion. D) Pathos or emotional persuasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos or emotional persuasion. 11. Which of the following is NOT an advantage anticipated by the narrator of A Modest Proposal? A) Proposal will decrease the number of Catholics. B) Proposal will decrease the number of beggars. C) Proposal will decrease the number of marriages. D) Proposal will decrease the # of poor people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Proposal will decrease the number of Catholics. 12. The following is an example of, "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst" A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Antithesis. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 13. Use of the same word or phrase more than once for emphasis A) Appeal. B) Rhetorical question. C) Repetition. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 14. A mistake in reasoning A) Invective. B) Logical Fallacy. C) Generalization. D) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logical Fallacy. 15. The power of the mind to think and form judgements logically; used to appeal to the rationality of an audience. A) Credibility (Ethos). B) Emotion (Pathos). C) Reason (Logos). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reason (Logos). 16. This genre of literature denotes the story of a single individual's growth and development within the context of a defined social order A) Genre. B) Satire. C) Bildungsroman. D) Prose. E) Homily. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bildungsroman. 17. Which type of rhetoric deals with ETHICS (right and wrong) and TRUST? A) ETHOS. B) PATHOS. C) LOGOS. D) ENO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ETHOS. 18. Which of the following examples is the best representation of imagery? A) "She wore a raspberry beret the kind you find in a secondhand store.". B) "In the morning, through the window shade, when the light pressed up against your shoulder blade, I could see what you were reading.". C) "Yesterday, my sister picked me up after school in her old blue station wagon. Needless to say I was embarrassed.". D) Take all of these papers and put them into a stack. Then put each stack into a folder, and put each folder into that drawer over there.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "In the morning, through the window shade, when the light pressed up against your shoulder blade, I could see what you were reading.". 19. He believes that the team will win the championship game. A) Past tense. B) Future tense. C) Present tense. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Present tense. 20. Greek word meaning "a word" or "reason" . A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. ← 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