This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 314 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 314 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The purpose of a text is the A) Theme. B) The goal the author is trying to accomplish for the audience. C) Point-of-view. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The goal the author is trying to accomplish for the audience. 2. Several parts of a sentence or several sentences expressed in similar grammatical form; "I came, I saw, I conquered." A) Repetition. B) Parallelism. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 3. Find the next term in the sequence:A, D, G, J, ..... A) L. B) M. C) P. D) K. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) M. 4. Which rhetorical devices can enhance the effectiveness of communication? A) Metaphors and similes. B) Alliteration and onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole and understatement. D) Irony and sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphors and similes. 5. A way to appeal to ETHOS is ..... A) Use strong words that make people feel a certain way. B) Provide evidence of how you are an expert on the topic. C) Use charts and numbers as evidence of your claim(s). D) Include pictures of cute babies and nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Provide evidence of how you are an expert on the topic. 6. One method to create pathos is A) A fair, unbiased done. B) Author's diction or word choice. C) Facts/statistics. D) Showing the audience the author can be trusted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Author's diction or word choice. 7. The art of using language to persuade, influence beliefs and/or achieve a desired purpose is (a) A) A rhetoric. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rhetoric. 8. There is not enough evidence to support a particular conclusion A) Bandwagon. B) Straw man. C) Hasty generalization. D) Red herring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hasty generalization. 9. Rhetorical appeal using logic (facts, statistics, reason, etc.) A) Logicia. B) Factophilia. C) Statisticarooni. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logos. 10. The character of the speaker is an artistic proof. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. An individual instance taken to be representative of a general pattern. A) Exposition. B) Example. C) Explication. D) Didactic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Example. 12. Several parts of a sentence or several sentences expressed in similar grammatical form to show that the ideas are equal in importance, this adds balance, rhythm, and emphasis to ideas A) Parallelism. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 13. ..... is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text. A) Allusion. B) Apostrophe. C) Anaphora. D) Anthropomorphize. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 14. Logical Fallacies:Look, either you love me and buy me chocolates, or you hate me and we never speak again. A) To man. B) Slippery slope. C) False dilemma (either/or reasoning). D) Hasty generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) False dilemma (either/or reasoning). 15. Logos is an appeal based on A) Power. B) Length. C) Reason. D) Emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reason. 16. Similar vowel sounds arerepeated in successive orproximate words.One proud round loud inthe white high night. A) Anaphora. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Assonance . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance . 17. Emergency room doctors often say they won't let their kids go on a trampoline. We should get rid of ours. A) The claim is "ER doctors say they won't let their kids on a trampoline.". B) The claim is "We should get rid of ours.". C) There is no claim; this isn't an argument. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The claim is "We should get rid of ours.". 18. A brief reference to a person, event, object, time period, literary work, etc. (example:Don't be such a Scrooge! The good Samaritan appeared on the scene. His smile is like kryptonite to me.) A) Epistrophe. B) Allusion. C) Euphemism. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 19. P in SPACECAT stands for: A) People. B) Plot. C) Purpose. D) Presentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purpose. 20. The following the an example of which type of rhetorical device? How does that make you feel? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Personification. C) Hypophora. D) Paradox. 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