This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 284 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 284 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Read this passage:Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man when I could get it and bear the lash as well! Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I A Woman?" What strategy is Sojourner Truth using in this passage? A) Logos, to make the audience feel bad about how she was treated. B) Analogy, to explain how hard it was for her to be a slave. C) Ethos, to establish her credibility as both a slave and a woman. D) Deductive reasoning, to use widely accepted facts to build authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deductive reasoning, to use widely accepted facts to build authority. 2. What genre deals with blaming someone? A) Deliberative. B) Epideictic. C) Judicial. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Judicial. 3. At the end of a race, we were deceved by an (allusion or illusion) that there was a cooler of water by the comfortable looking chairs A) Allusion. B) Illusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Illusion. 4. Do pigs fly? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Oxymoron. C) Charged Words. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 5. "This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable Rights' of 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." ' What rhetoric tool is this an example of? A) Citing facts and statistics. B) Proving speaker's credibility. C) Appeal to audience's feelings. D) Appeal to audience's morals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appeal to audience's morals. 6. The context in which an argument exists that directly influences not only what is presented by also how it is presented A) Evidence. B) Rhetorical situation. C) Bias. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical situation. 7. "If you are in high school and own a pet, then you need to read this" Based on the title, what is the audience? A) Pet store owners. B) Adults who own pets. C) Pet seekers. D) High school students who own pets. E) Both adults (B) and high school students (D). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) High school students who own pets. 8. Define:Parataxis A) A literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences. B) A figure of speech in which an object or idea is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences. 9. Which of the following rhetorical elements is demonstrated in the following sentence from Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention? "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!" A) Figurative language. B) Logical persuasion. C) Ethical persuasion. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 10. What is Analogy? A) The repetition in successive words of the same initial consonant sound or of any vowel sound. B) A comparison of two things, often a dissimilar nature yet alike in certain aspects, in order to suggest that what is true of one applies to the other. C) A short, interesting or amusing story about a particular person or event told to make a point. Forms a more human connection (pathos) between audience and speaker. D) A reference to a generally familiar person, place or thing, whether real or legendary . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A comparison of two things, often a dissimilar nature yet alike in certain aspects, in order to suggest that what is true of one applies to the other. 11. What are three factors that contribute a source's credibility? A) The author's lack of knowledge, his/her point of view, and his/her propaganda. B) The author's level of expertise, his/her point of view, and the facts. C) The author's level of expertise, his/her point of view, and date of accessed. D) The author's level of expertise, his/her point of view, and date of publication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The author's level of expertise, his/her point of view, and date of publication. 12. In the Special K add, they say "we know only real ingredients make really delicious bowlfuls." What kind of logical fallacy is this? A) To man. B) Sweeping generalizations. C) Loaded language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sweeping generalizations. 13. Squealer uses many propaganda techniques, but ..... is the one that finally gets the animals to be quiet. A) Name calling. B) Glittering generalities. C) Fear. D) Plain folks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fear. 14. Repetition of a word or words in successive clauses; the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause A) Folding. B) Anaphora. C) Auxesis. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Folding. 15. Fill in the blank:When we consider ....., we want to notice interesting constructions such as parallelism, juxtaposition, and antithesis, along with sentence types such as compound, complex, periodic, cumulative, and imperative, among others; we might also look at at the pacing of a piece of work. A) Syntax. B) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 16. Who delivered the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech? A) Martin Luther King Jr. B) Nelson Mandela. C) Gandhi. D) Aristotle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Martin Luther King Jr. 17. Speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience A) Mood. B) Point of view. C) Perspective. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 18. Pathos 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: C) The way the audience reacts to receiving the message. 19. Which of the following would be a technique that uses logos? A) Using pictures of a hurt child. B) Including research. C) Having someone credible who agrees with you. D) Making people laugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Including research. 20. ..... is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. A) Antithesis. B) Irony. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. ← 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