This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 286 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 286 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Using numbers, data, or words that can be proven true or false A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Rhetorical appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 2. Which of the following can weaken the effect on the audience if over-relied on? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 3. What is the author's purpose? A note from your friend asking you to be his science partner. A) Entertain. B) Inform. C) Persuade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuade. 4. What is the purpose of a counterargument in an argument? A) To support the writer's claim. B) To provide evidence for the claim. C) To list and negate claims from the other side. D) To redirect attention away from the main issue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To list and negate claims from the other side. 5. Rhetorical appeals were introduced by which Greek philosopher A) Plato. B) Socrates. C) Aristotle. D) Antigone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aristotle. 6. Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into c constituent parts of details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences. A) Anaphora. B) Enumeratio. C) Syntax. D) Expletive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enumeratio. 7. What device is used in the following example: "A study by Harvard University doctors showed that classrooms with cellphones inside always received lower grades. Therefore, the need to ban them in schools is obvious." A) Metaphor. B) Understatement. C) Loaded language. D) Appeal to authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appeal to authority. 8. For what are you brainstorming when you consider persona, tone, and credibility? A) Subject. B) Audience. C) Speaker. D) Occasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 9. What is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Eros. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 10. The philosopher who first listed the three persuasive strategies was named ..... A) Plato. B) Aristotle. C) Alexander. D) Stephanopolous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aristotle. 11. What is wrong with the verb in the following sentence? "A decision was reached by the arbitration panel." A) Indirect. B) Passive. C) Imprecise. D) Inaccurate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Passive. 12. What is a personal anecdote? A) A short, personal story. B) An indirect reference to another person or text. C) A question that does not need an answer. D) A comparison of two things using 'like' or 'as'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A short, personal story. 13. That makes sense A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 14. Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job, and there's not enough money to go around. Maybe you life in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Rhetorical question. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 15. What type of rhetorical appeal is being used here? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 16. ..... one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight. A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 17. Match the technique to the appropriate appeal:figurative language A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 18. Explaining the characteristics of a subject A) Problem/solution. B) Comparison/analogy. C) Description. D) Cause and/or effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Description. 19. "Life moves pretty fast." (movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" ) A) Anaphora. B) Personification. C) Juxtaposition. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 20. A false belief A) Equivocate. B) Provision. C) Delusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Delusion. ← 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