This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 279 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 279 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. Similar to diction, but this refers to the groups of words, while diction refers to the individual words. A) Syntax. B) Sentences. C) Coherence. D) Figurative speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 2. Studies have shown that students who read for 20 minutes every day score in the 98th percentile on standardized tests. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 3. A character says the opposite of what he or she means. A) Dramatic irony. B) Verbal irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal irony. 4. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint A) Authoritarianism. B) Control. C) Freedom. D) Privacy tags1984Real Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Freedom. 5. The direct meaning of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; explicit or primary meaning. A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 6. When an author is trying to persuade his/audience base off their needs which Rhetorical Device is using A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 7. Was not the best of the times and also not the worst of the times. A) Personification. B) Understatement. C) Epistrophe. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 8. What is the AUDIENCE for the 2018 Question 2 text? A) A commencement ceremony for the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College. B) A commencement ceremony for the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College. C) The women graduates of the college, and the American people. D) Inspiring admiration and perseverance among the listener, and hope for their future. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The women graduates of the college, and the American people. 9. Sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions; uses terms related to the five senses A) Metonymy. B) Conceit. C) Multi-connectors. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 10. Places the reader inside the character's head and makes the reader privy to the continuous, chaotic flow of disconnected, half-formed thoughts and impressions in the character's mind. A) Red Herring. B) Rhetoric. C) Simile. D) Stream of consciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stream of consciousness. 11. What is the main characteristic of ethos? A) It appeals to emotion. B) It uses moral reasoning. C) It appeals to logic. D) It establishes credibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It establishes credibility. 12. Ethos relates to the ..... A) Author. B) Speaker. C) Message/Subject. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 13. Pick the correct sentence A) Elizabeth said she was unhappy. B) Elizabeth said, "she was unhappy.". C) Elizabeth said she was unhappy. D) Elizabeth said "She was unhappy.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabeth said she was unhappy. 14. In the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword, " which rhetorical device is used? A) Hypallage. B) Hyperbaton. C) Epigram. D) Periphrasis. E) Metonymy tagsrhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epigram. 15. Which is an example of logos? A) A picture of the product. B) Cute kids next to the product. C) A celebrity endorsement. D) A list of all the other people who have bought the product. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A picture of the product. 16. Why informational texts are so important? A) They Develop skills. B) Develops comprehension. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Develops comprehension. 17. Cause and effect ..... A) Explains a real story that happened to someone. B) Shows the similarities and differences between things. C) Repeats what has already been said or written. D) Shows where one event makes another happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shows where one event makes another happen. 18. Which of the following attempts to persuade the audience based off credibility? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 19. Died A) Transcends. B) Humility. C) Accomplices. D) Perished. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perished. 20. A part of something is used to refer to the whole A) Synecdoche. B) Receipt. C) Designation. D) Trope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. ← 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