This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 274 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 274 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of the same consonant sounds repeated in a group of words. A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 2. She is more beautiful than the moon and stars. A) Allusion. B) Understatement. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 3. What the speaker wants the audience to feel while listening; what he/she wants the audience to do after listening. A) Purpose. B) Form. C) Tone. D) Analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purpose. 4. Her love of chocolate was her Achilles' heel. A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 5. Words that are inaccurate literally, but describe by calling to mind sensations or responses that the thing described evokes. A) Catharsis. B) Euphemism. C) Figurative Language. D) Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 6. A phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order A) Antithesis. B) Antimetabole. C) Hyperbole. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antimetabole. 7. Which of the following words should you use in formal diction? A) He. B) I. C) We. D) Us. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He. 8. What genre of rhetoric deals with persuading someone? A) Judicial. B) Epideictic. C) Deliberative. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deliberative. 9. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ..... "-Charles Dickens A) Epistrophe. B) Antimetabole. C) Antithesis. D) Counterargument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 10. Is this an appeal to Ethos or Pathos?9 out of 10 dentists recommend Crest toothpaste. A) Appeal to Ethos. B) Appeal to Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to Ethos. 11. The person who wrote The Art of Rhetoric was Aristotle. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Using contradictory words together A) Oxymoron. B) Simile. C) Skesis of names. D) Multi-connectors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 13. Where is "I Have a Dream" delivered? A) Kennedy Space Center. B) Golden Gate Bridge. C) Lincoln Memorial. D) Museum of Tolerance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lincoln Memorial. 14. Which relative of Clarissa's inspires her the most? A) Her Uncle. B) Her Father. C) Her Mother. D) Her Aunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her Uncle. 15. When your friend is trying to convince you to do something and he says, "Come on, what's the worst that could happen?" he's using what kind of rhetorical device to try to convince you? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 16. ..... sentences give the main idea at the beginning, and then adding more information to build up the idea further. They are useful when the goal of a writer is clarity rather than suspense. A) Periodic. B) Cumulative/loose. C) Incomplete. D) Fragmented. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cumulative/loose. 17. An independent clause A) Can stand alone. B) Cannot stand alone. C) Does not need a subject. D) Does not need a verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Can stand alone. 18. It was so crowded that there must have been a million people at the restaurant! A) Syntax. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 19. As she passed into the next world, Melissa shook her curls one last time. A) Euphemism. B) Antimetabole. C) Synecdoche. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 20. What is required for a group of words to be a CLAUSE? A) A subject only. B) A verb only. C) A subject and a verb. D) A conjunction and a verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A subject and a verb. ← 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