This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 296 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 296 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... means:A phrase or sentence that is repeated in reverse order using the exact same words and grammatical pattern A) Unrelated. B) Rhetorical question. C) Parallelism. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antimetabole. 2. "Then, starting home, he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bend wheat" (Capote 219). A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. "These are the times that try men's souls." A) Paine. B) Henry. C) Franklin. D) Jefferson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paine. 4. "Life is a beach house/don't let the sand in." -Nicki MinajThese lyrics contain which rhetorical device? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today." A) An example of simile. B) An example of logos. C) An example of parallelism. D) An example of allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An example of parallelism. 6. Is a priest's mass rhetorical?A. It can beB. It always isC. Only part of itD. It depends on the church A) It can be. B) It always is. C) Only part of it. D) It depends on the church. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Only part of it. 7. An understatement (that is often ironic) in which an idea is expressed by negating the opposite. For example, after taking the SAT, you might say, "It wasn't the easiest test." What you really mean is that it was extremely difficult. A) Chiasmus. B) Litotes. C) Unrelated. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Litotes. 8. Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses. A) Anaphora. B) Repetition. C) Parallelism. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 9. The principle of coherent writing requiring that coordinating elements be given the same grammatical form A) Rhetoric. B) Coherence. C) Diction. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 10. Which would be a nice way to express that a writer repeats a common theme throughout his or her speech? A) Motif. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Foreshadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motif. 11. A mild or pleasant word or phrase that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive A) Euphemism. B) Oxymoron. C) Juxtaposition. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 12. Occurs when contrasting ideas are expressed in a grammatically balanced statement A) Antitheses. B) Biblical allusions. C) Audience. D) Hasty generalizations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antitheses. 13. Which of the following is an example of enumeration? A) " we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, " Martin Luther King Jr. B) "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." -Yoda. C) "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." -Winston Churchill. D) "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." -Dale Carnegie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) " we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, " Martin Luther King Jr. 14. "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." -Socrates (5th Century B.C.) A) Allusion. B) Juxtaposition. C) Chiasmus. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chiasmus. 15. Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals. A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. The ..... includes proper citation, but the paper contains almost no original work. A) 404 error. B) Hybrid. C) Aggregator. D) Re-tweet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aggregator. 17. What are examples of figures of speech? A) Ethos, pathos, logos. B) An appeal based on the character of the speaker. C) Metaphor, simile, alliteration. D) Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor, simile, alliteration. 18. Contrast of opposing ideas through parallel arrangement of words, phrases, or sentences. A) Antithesis. B) Rhetorical question. C) Irony. D) Zeugma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 19. A question the speaker does not expect an answer to is called a/an ..... A) Prediction. B) Inference. C) Rhetorical question. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical question. 20. Which rhetorical device involves the intentional use of words that sound like their meaning? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. ← 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