This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 324 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 324 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Parallel Structure or Parallelism is ..... A) A repeated grammatical pattern. B) Joins two complete sentences together. C) When two things happen at the same time. D) How you write the Declaration of Independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A repeated grammatical pattern. 2. What a wonderful world. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Oxymoron. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. "Oh, thanks. This is exactly what I wanted for Christmas ..... " A) Irony and sarcasm. B) Parenthesis. C) Pun. D) Emotional language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony and sarcasm. 4. The writer describes a person intently watching a bird fly overhead. What is the bird symbolizing? A) Freedom. B) Knowledge. C) The chosen one. D) Birth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Freedom. 5. The main argument of a speaker. A) Speech. B) Claim. C) Sub-claim. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Claim. 6. Which of the following logical fallacies is shown in the following sentence: "I drank bottled water and now I am sick, so the water must have made me sick." A) Post Hoc. B) Red Herring. C) Circular Argument. D) Straw Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Post Hoc. 7. An exaggerated statement meant to elicit an emotional response A) Euphemism. B) False Analogy. C) Hyperbole. D) Jargon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 8. Melissa's curls whooshed shaking into the wind. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Litotes. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 9. The most important element of argumentation is the A) Concession. B) Claim. C) Counterargument. D) Qualifier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Claim. 10. Repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses. A) Epistrophe. B) Anaphora. C) Repetition. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epistrophe. 11. Point of view spoken from an outsiders perspective (they, their, he/she) A) 1st. B) And. C) An offer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An offer. 12. Uses facts and figures to show one side as positive and the other side as negative A) Testimonial. B) Card stacking. C) Glittering generalities. D) Transfer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Card stacking. 13. Related to style, ..... refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. A) Diction. B) Didactic. C) Discourse. D) Ellipsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 14. What is the principal virtue of good style in a speech? A) Clarity. B) Eloquence. C) Complexity. D) Emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clarity. 15. Using fear to sway people is called ..... A) Scare tactic. B) Ad hominem. C) Faulty causality. D) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scare tactic. 16. Which of the following best defines "Ethos" A) Emotional connection. B) Evolutionary concepts. C) Ethical appeal. D) Establish an introduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethical appeal. 17. Which perspective deals with motives, emotional states, and intentions? A) Normative. B) Situational. C) Personal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personal. 18. Pick Aristotle's three different types of rhetoric:A. Deliberative, argumentative, demonstrativeB. Deliberative, judicial, demonstrativeC. Judicial, argumentative, demonstrativeD. Deliberative, judicial, argumentative A) Deliberative, argumentative, demonstrative. B) Deliberative, judicial, demonstrative. C) Judicial, argumentative, demonstrative. D) Deliberative, judicial, argumentative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deliberative, judicial, demonstrative. 19. If it rains anymore, we will have to build an arc. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 20. Narrator presents the thoughts and actions of any or all the characters A) First-person point of view. B) Second-person point of view. C) Third-person omniscient point of view. D) Third-person limited point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Third-person omniscient point of view. ← 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