This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 294 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 294 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Trump is good at creating new, memorable terms and phrases. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. This is a structured essay using clear CLAIM, EVIDENCE, and REASONING for the purpose of persuading others. A) Narrative essay. B) Explanatory essay. C) Argumentative essay. D) Descriptive essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Argumentative essay. 3. What is the figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is? A) Euphemism. B) Understatement. C) Paradox. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 4. Let us go then, you and I, While the evening is spread out against the sky, Like a patient etherized upon a table-T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" A) Synaesthesia. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 5. What rhetorical appeal is being used when a writer uses facts, logic, or reason to get their audience to act or think a certain way? A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 6. When you use the whole idea of somebody else as your own is this type of plagiarism. A) Patchwork. B) Global. C) Incremental. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Global. 7. A climate scientist gives a speech to Congress about his studies on climate change to urge them to take action before it's too late.Which rhetorical device is used? A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 8. The measured rhythm of a piece of poetry A) Meter. B) Line. C) End rhyme. D) None listed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 9. Edgar Allan Poe is famous for ..... which poem? A) Lonely As A Cloud. B) The Raven. C) The Metamorphosis. D) The Black Cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Raven. 10. The word:bias, has a noun and a verb definition A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 11. The HOW of an argument; the strategies we use to make an argument persuasive A) Rhetoric. B) Argument. C) Audience. D) Concession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric. 12. Much more important in argumentative writing than it is in persuasive writing. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 13. Rhetorical reading focuses on these two things. A) Reading and writing. B) What a text says and how an author says it. C) What a text says and what is does not say. D) Reading and thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What a text says and how an author says it. 14. "If my years as a Marine taught me anything, it's that caution is the best policy in this sort of situation." A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 15. A temporary departure from the main subject in speaking or writing A) Damning with faint praise. B) Deductive reasoning. C) Digression. D) Dogmatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Digression. 16. An informal way of reasoning. Includes data, a claim, and the warrant of an argument. A) Bandwagon. B) We are models. C) Deduction. D) Oration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We are models. 17. Which literary device is used when a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable? A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below? "Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells." - "The Bells, " Edgar Allan Poe A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 19. Repeating the same pattern in several sentences or throughout a paragraph. A) Parallel Structure. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Analogy. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallel Structure. 20. You should not play football because it is statistically the most dangerous sport in terms of injuries. Also, 75% of football players have received serious head injuries, which impacts their health later in life. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. ← 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