This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 32 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which persuasive technique is used? "The people of this city deserve a mayor they can trust, a mayor they can respect, a mayor they can count on." A) Loaded words. B) Repetition. C) Testimonial. D) Slogan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 2. Evidence given for the argument is called ..... A) Support. B) Claim. C) Counterclaim. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Support. 3. How does deliberative deal with the future? A) It doesn't; it deals with arguing in the past. B) Because you can't persuade / dissuade someone who has already done something in the past. C) None. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because you can't persuade / dissuade someone who has already done something in the past. 4. Repeating something that has already been said or written is conveniently called A) Refutation. B) Repetition. C) Imagery. D) Narration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 5. Classification A) Ploy where the arguer sidesteps questions or conflicts, evading or ignoring the question. B) Examination of the causes and/or effects of a situation or phenomenon. C) Arrangement in the order in which things occur; may move from past to present or in reverse order, from present to past. D) A use of reason in which the premises depends on or is equivalent to the conclusion, a method of false logic by which "this is used to prove that, and that is used to prove this". E) Arrangement of objects according to class. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Arrangement of objects according to class. 6. Hydraulic societies or A) Fertile despots. B) River despots. C) Oriental despots. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oriental despots. 7. Your answer to #3. A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D. 8. What does kairos refer to in writing? A) The right time or moment to make an argument. B) The emotional connection between the writer and the reader. C) The use of logical evidence to support claims. D) The credibility of the writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The right time or moment to make an argument. 9. Individual style in which a certain author/speaker conveys stories or messages. A) Voice. B) Tone. C) Purpose. D) Pizzazz. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 10. The following is an example of which kind of rhetorical device? The team won the game hands down. A) Hyperbole. B) Synecdoche. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 11. Why did the author ask a rhetorical question in paragraph 2, then answer it? A) To make the reader acknowledge a misconception about the topic. B) To make the reader consider getting a job. C) To make the reader feel embarrassed for judging teens who don't work. D) To help the reader understand why teens aren't working. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make the reader acknowledge a misconception about the topic. 12. Occurs when the author assumes that the cases that receive the most publicity are the most common cases A) Slippery slope. B) Spatial ordering. C) Spotlight fallacy. D) Stacking the deck. E) Straw man. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spotlight fallacy. 13. Information or ideas that are spread to influence people's opinions or beliefs A) Propaganda. B) Freedom. C) Surveillance. D) Censorship tags1984Real Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Propaganda. 14. Opposition or juxtaposition of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction."Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more." (Julius Caesar, III, ii) A) Antithesis. B) Pathos. C) Euphemism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 15. A phrase that presents a figurative meaning; well-known saying A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 16. Identify the Rhetorical Device:I'm surprised; Glasses didn't know the answer to the Trivia question. A) Metaphor. B) Understatement. C) Metonymy. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 17. Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or ideas with parallel structure A) Antithesis. B) Jargon. C) Theme. D) Induction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 18. Which trope or scheme is used in the following sentence? "You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl." A) Anastrophe. B) Epistrophe. C) Antithesis. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antimetabole. 19. The justification for or reasoning behind something. A) Assess. B) Basses. C) Attests. D) Non of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Basses. 20. Do you see those kids over.....? A) There. B) They're. C) Their. D) None of above. 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