This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 276 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 276 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The inference that a claim is true for most people or a majority, used to speak to prevailing beliefs or prejudices of an audience. A) Assertion. B) Loaded Words. C) Generalization. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Generalization. 2. A political system in which a single ruler or group has absolute power and authority A) Authoritarianism. B) Dystopia. C) Oppression. D) Totalitarianism tags1984Real Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Authoritarianism. 3. Constructing reality is another communicative function that rhetoric performs A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) Not sure. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 4. Which of the following means that the audience trusts the speaker? A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Deimos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 5. "A teenager tries to convince his parents to buy him a new car, as the old one continually breaks down, by saying if they cared about their child's safety they'd upgrade him." A) Ethos. B) Diction. C) Pathos. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 6. E. coli mutation is caused by feeding cows corn. Statistics showing how E. coli cases are found within the same companies repeatedly. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 7. Define trope. A) A figure of speech or a metaphorical use of a word or expression. B) A type of musical instrument. C) A type of clothing accessory. D) A type of dance move. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A figure of speech or a metaphorical use of a word or expression. 8. 72% of Americans prefer body wash to bar soap.Which appeal is used in this statement? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 9. What document does Antony share with the Roman mob? A) Caesar's journal. B) Caesar's will. C) Brutus' will. D) Rome's constitution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caesar's will. 10. What dos the "s" represent in SOAPSTone? A) Subject. B) Setting. C) Summary. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 11. What is the main idea of the following text? The paths you choose today can shape you forever. It's both frightening and exciting that we have to make so many vital decisions when we're so young and full of hormones, but such is life. Imagine an eighty-foot rope stretched out before you. Each foot represents one year of your life. Teenagehood is only seven years, such a short span of rope, but those seven affect the remaining sixty-one, for good or bad, in such a powerful way. A) It is both frightening and exciting that you have to make so many vital decisions. B) Life is short like an eighty-foot rope. C) The paths you choose today can shape you forever. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The paths you choose today can shape you forever. 12. What is the following an example of:What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called. A) Imagery. B) Appeal to shared beliefs. C) Hyperbole. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 13. What does the "t" represent in SOAPStone? A) Text. B) Theme. C) Title. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 14. If Melissa were here, she'd shake her curls and say, "How fitting." A) Parallelism. B) Unexpected. C) Personality. D) Pleonasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personality. 15. He delivered a ..... speech that did not even address our problems. A) Callow. B) Ex officio. C) Bombastic. D) Inveigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bombastic. 16. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. A) Antimetabole. B) Folding. C) Antithesis. D) Unconnected. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Folding. 17. Wording that has a strong connotation or mental image A) Loaded language. B) Emotional appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Loaded language. 18. Honest and ordinary people, like you and I, choose this product. A) Plain Folks. B) Snob Appeal. C) Fear. D) Emotional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plain Folks. 19. Uses pronouns I/me A) 1st person POV. B) 2nd person POV. C) 3rd person POV. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st person POV. 20. Rhetorical appeal:provides a sense of emotion A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. ← 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