This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 281 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 281 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the purpose of rhetorical questions in communication? A) To convey a strong message. B) To engage the audience. C) To confuse the listeners. D) To provide information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To engage the audience. 2. This part of an argument is the stance on the issue, the answer to a question, or the idea of the speaker. A) Claim. B) Reason. C) Warrant. D) Counterclaim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Claim. 3. Does the following sentence contain an example of metonymy or synecdoche?He has many mouths to feed. A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 4. "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are.Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky." This is an example of ..... A) Aside. B) Apostrophe. C) Soliloquy. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 5. What should be the correct verb be in this sentence. Neither George nor Sam are able to join the basketball team A) They're. B) Are. C) Is. D) Iss. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is. 6. "School uniforms are uncomfortable, unattractive, and unfashionable." A) Lists of 3. B) Repetition. C) Audience involvement. D) Personal involvement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lists of 3. 7. Identify the counterclaim to this claim:Students should be able to eat snacks in class. A) Chewing gum raises test scores. B) Studies show eating during class keeps students focused. C) Teachers argue food distracts students. D) Eating is during school hours is important. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Teachers argue food distracts students. 8. Delivering her speech to the crowd was like talking to a wall. A) Rhetorical analogy. B) Straw man. C) Truth surrogate. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical analogy. 9. A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing (y'all, ain't ) A) Allusion. B) Aphorism. C) Colloquialism. D) Caricature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colloquialism. 10. When Albert Einstein says, "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way:you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat, " he is using ..... A) Analogy. B) Epistrophe. C) Alliteration. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 11. What is NEVER an appropriate description of the audience of a text? A) Me. B) Everyone. C) Who the author is specifically talking to. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Everyone. 12. The appeal to logic is known as ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 13. You can break grammar rules for an effect, true or false? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Attacking the person, not the argument. A) Red Herring. B) To Man. C) Straw Man. D) Whataboutism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To Man. 15. Ethos is most closely related to ..... A) The qualities of the sender of the message. B) The qualities of the message itself. C) The way the audience reacts to receiving the message. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The qualities of the sender of the message. 16. What text structure has details? A) Compare/Contrast. B) Problem/Solution. C) Description. D) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Description. 17. This persuasive technique wants us to identify with people who are just like us. A) Loaded Words. B) Bandwagon. C) Plain Folks. D) Testimonial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plain Folks. 18. Synecdoche is..... A) Two apparently contradictory words. B) Making a situation seem less important. C) A type of repetition where the writer ends a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. D) The word for a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or less commonly, the word for a whole is used to refer to a part. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The word for a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or less commonly, the word for a whole is used to refer to a part. 19. Repetition of the initial consonant sounds beginning several words in sequencered roosters run rapidly A) Onomatopoeia. B) Rhetoric. C) Unrelated. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 20. Which of the following options below has the follwing definition:using the same word of phrase or sentence over and over again A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Juxtaposition. D) Personification. 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