This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 287 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 287 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does pathos appeal to? A) The values that the writer and audience share. B) The audience's sense of logic or reason. C) The path on which the audience journeys through life. D) The audience's emotions, including their hopes and fears. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The audience's emotions, including their hopes and fears. 2. One portrait, The Hermitage Court Chamber Herald Cat, includes an aristocratic tilt of feline ears as well as a stately sweep of tail emerging from the stiff scarlet and gold of royal court dress. The wise, thoughtful green eyes of the subject of The Hermitage Court Outrunner Cat mimic those of a trusted royal advisor. At this point, the writer is considering adding the following sentence.The museum occupies six historic buildings, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors.Should the writer make this addition here? A) Yes, because it shows the link between Peter the Great and the cat paintings. B) Yes, because it helps explain why Russian art celebrates animals. C) No, because it fails to indicate why the Winter Palace became an art museum. D) No, because it provides background information that is irrelevant to the paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No, because it provides background information that is irrelevant to the paragraph. 3. What is another word for intrinsic? A) Absolute. B) Known. C) Inherent. D) Industrial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inherent. 4. What is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing called? A) Juxtaposition. B) Logos. C) Rhetoric. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 5. Select the correct definition for the term "rhetorical context" A) The circumstances surrounding an act of reading and/or composiiton. B) The use of excessive language to impress. C) The study of different types of speeches. D) The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The circumstances surrounding an act of reading and/or composiiton. 6. The ..... is the main idea or central argument of a text. A) Purpose. B) Context. C) Message. D) Requirement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Message. 7. The feeling created in the reader by the writer is called ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 8. The rhyming and the chiming of bells is an example of ..... A) Internal rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Slant rhyme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 9. To convince an audience using logic or reason A) Rhetoric. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logos. 10. A literary device in which one attacks or insults with the use of tone or abusive diction A) Parody. B) Invective. C) Juxtaposition. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invective. 11. Descriptive figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. A) Folding. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Repeat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 12. The time and place an argument occurs is: A) Situation. B) Context. C) Extremely important to the argument. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. The representation of something as greater than actually is the case, used to grab the attention of the audience and emphasize certain points. A) Exaggeration. B) Groups of 3. C) Evidence. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exaggeration. 14. Who is the odd one out? A) Aristotle. B) Gorgias. C) Cicero. D) Richards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Richards. 15. The emotional or cultural associations that a word carries beyond its literal meaning A) Denotation. B) Ethos. C) Irony. D) Connotation tagsRhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation tagsRhetoric. 16. How many years are in a score? A) 10. B) 20. C) 25. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 20. 17. Choose the sentence that is in correct parallel structure. A) The teacher has the responsibility of providing supplemental help and to review all test material with the students. B) The teacher has the responsibility of providing supplemental help and reviewing all test material with the students. C) The teacher had the responsibility of providing supplemental help and reviewed all test material with the students. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The teacher has the responsibility of providing supplemental help and reviewing all test material with the students. 18. To get worse A) Prodigious. B) Unalienable. C) Degenerate. D) Gradualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Degenerate. 19. Who is the author of "Night?" A) Elie Wiesel. B) Homer. C) Mark Twain. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elie Wiesel. 20. How can you recognize prejudice? A) When someone's negative opinions have no basis in fact or experiencel. B) When someone is extremely hateful. C) When only negative information is presented. D) When someone is overly emotional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When someone's negative opinions have no basis in fact or experiencel. ← 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