This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 319 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 319 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The word choice and purposeful arrangement of words that affect meaning in speech or writing. A) Diction. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 2. One positive aspect of pathos is that A) It can be used to make the audience comfortable with the speaker. B) Emotions are difficult for other people to disprove. C) Once the speaker starts using emotions, she must keep using them to keep the audience engaged. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It can be used to make the audience comfortable with the speaker. 3. Which of the following is the right definition for context: A) Context shows the goal of the speaker and what he/she wants to accomplish. B) Context is situational. Every text is influenced by the historical, cultural, and social movements of its time. C) Context is specific. It is the circumstances, attitudes and events surrounding the creation of the text. D) Context is the person or group who creates a text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Context is situational. Every text is influenced by the historical, cultural, and social movements of its time. 4. What are the purposes of an argument? A) To convince someone to buy something. B) To change someone's opinion or convince them to take a course of action. C) To entertain and change the minds of others. D) To inform and change someone's ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To change someone's opinion or convince them to take a course of action. 5. An author or speaker's attitude towards their subject. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Occasion. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 6. Which figure of speech is used to exaggerate something for emphasis or dramatic effect? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. The art of using language to persuade, influence beliefs, and/or achieve a desired purpose A) Rhetorical Devices. B) Rhetorical Appeals. C) Rhetoric. D) Rhetorical Analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 8. Which of the following is NOT an example of hyperbole? A) I'd fly to the moon for you. B) If he doesn't call soon, I think I'm going to die. C) What do you think, dear reader?. D) I have a million things to do today. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What do you think, dear reader?. 9. Some ask, "What can my country do for me?" I ask, "What can I do for my country?" A) Repetition. B) Antithesis. C) Anaphora. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 10. All of the following are examples of a coordinating conjunction EXCEPT ..... A) But. B) Because. C) Yet. D) For. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because. 11. Using similar grammatical structure to emphasize related ideas A) Parallelism. B) Evidence. C) Rhetorical triangle. D) Counterargument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 12. Which is an example of Parallelism? A) "The war int he Pacific has not necessarily developed in Japan's favor." Emperor Hirohito, surrendering Japan in World War II. B) "A penny saved is a penny earned." Benjamin Franklin. C) "Can anyone look at our reduced standing in the world today and say 'Let's have four more years of this?" Ronald Reagan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "A penny saved is a penny earned." Benjamin Franklin. 13. Figure which represents abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities, including physical, emotional, and spiritual; the application of human attributes or abilities to nonhuman entities. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 14. "And yet we are still involved in this war. A war that has taken spouses. A war that has taken parents from children. A war that has taken children from parents."This is an example of which rhetorical device? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Conduplicatio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conduplicatio. 15. "That's hot" is part of the American ..... A) Explicit. B) Testimonial. C) Vernacular. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vernacular. 16. Greek term for understatement or belittling; referring to something as less important than it really deserves A) Hyperbole. B) Inductive reasoning. C) Litotes. D) Meiosis. E) Missing the point. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meiosis. 17. "So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania ..... "-MLK Jr. A) Tricolon. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 18. What is one reason that Thomas Paine thinks the colonies stand a good chance against the British? A) The British do not care that much about the colonies and will give up easily. B) The British army and navy are mostly made up of middle-aged men. C) The colonies have the resources to build a great navy. D) The colonies will have the American Indians fighting for them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The colonies have the resources to build a great navy. 19. Dr. Martin called an ambulance to a woman's house to take her to the hospital, wishing to save her life after she had a heart attack. On the way to the hospital, the ambulance is hit by a semi truck and everyone on board the ambulance is injured. What type of irony is represented in this situation? A) None of the above. B) Situational irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational irony. 20. What three things should you include in your explanation of a rhetorical appeal? (think back to Friday's class). A) 1. identify the appeal 2. define the appeal. B) 1. identify the appeal 2. define the appeal 3. explain how your example is related to the defintion. C) 1. define the appeal 2. explain how the appeal relates to a theme discussed in the book. D) 1. identify the appeal 2. define the appeal 3. explain your point of view on the appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. identify the appeal 2. define the appeal 3. explain how your example is related to the defintion. ← 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