This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 313 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 313 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Directly comparing two things using "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Logical appeal. D) Multi-connectors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. Reflective poems that lament the loss of someone or something. A) Elegy. B) Ambiguity. C) Aside. D) Colloquialism. E) Fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy. 3. Rules are very important. They help keep things running smoothly. Rules let you know what you can and can't do, whether you're playing a game or explaining how to behave in class. You should follow the rules; they help people get along.What is the author's purpose? A) To entertain with a story about people following the rules. B) To inform about the rules of games. C) To persuade people to follow the rules. D) To explain the rules of chess. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To persuade people to follow the rules. 4. Which of the following is the strongest form of evidence a speaker/writer can use to make a point? A) Anecdote. B) Analogy. C) Comparison. D) Acknowledgment and Response. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acknowledgment and Response. 5. This statement is the sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position A) Theme. B) Thesis. C) Tone. D) Trope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thesis. 6. Which argument would present the audience with statistics and numbers to convince them to change their point of view? A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 7. Find the rhetorical device in the following statement: "I can resist everything except temptation." A) Hypallage. B) Hyperbaton. C) Epigram. D) Periphrasis. E) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epigram. 8. A word or words, either figurative or literal, used to describe a sensory experience or an object perceived y the senses. Always a concrete representation. A) Figures of Speech. B) Hyperbole. C) Invective. D) Image. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Image. 9. Usually in poetry but sometimes in prose; the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction. A) Anecdote. B) Allusion. C) Apostrophe. D) Abstract. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 10. Synthetic personalisation A) The process of addressing audiences as though they were individuals through inclusive language usage. B) The process of addressing an audience indirectly. C) The process of using artificial arguments to make a point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The process of addressing audiences as though they were individuals through inclusive language usage. 11. What is the man in the image below called? A) Uncle Sam. B) Abraham Lincoln. C) Woodrow Wilson. D) George Washington. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uncle Sam. 12. 'Would u like me to turn the car around and we go home?' Which technique is being used here? A) Emotive language. B) Hyperbole. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Appeal to family values. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Question. 13. The larger or immediate circumstances surrounding a text or speech. A) Occasion. B) Audience. C) Purpose. D) Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occasion. 14. What are 4 things that need to be considered when conducting rhetorical analysis? A) Context, Audience, Images, and Vocabulary. B) Setting, Speaker, call to action, and Images. C) Context, Speaker, Purpose, and Audience. D) Speaker, Purpose, Context, and Vocabulary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context, Speaker, Purpose, and Audience. 15. A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. They can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. A) Allegory. B) Allusion. C) Anachronism. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 16. Using fear to influence the opinions of the audience A) Glittering generalities. B) Loaded language. C) Fear tactics. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fear tactics. 17. Giving non-living things human like characteristics A) Repetition. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Litotes. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 18. Which rhetorical device is in use in this excerpt ( I will be the best. I will be the greatest. I will win no matter what. ) A) Parallelism. B) Anaphora. C) Epistophe. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 19. Identify the rhetorical device used in the sentence: "The city that never sleeps." A) Hypallage. B) Hyperbaton. C) Epigram. D) Periphrasis. E) Metonymy tagsrhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbaton. 20. Purpose could best be defined as: A) Reason for speaking. B) Cause for break-dancing. C) Call for attention. D) Hollering at the audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reason for speaking. ← 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