This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 33 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 33 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Analyzing punctuation choices is a part of analyzing this A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Rhetoric. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 2. The difference between TED and TEDx is: A) They are the same. B) TEDx is organized by local people with local speakers. C) TED conference is a spinoff of TEDx. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TEDx is organized by local people with local speakers. 3. An "X-men" comic book. A) Persuade. B) Inform. C) Entertain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Entertain. 4. What's the Rhetorical Device?The process of creating a word that mimics a sound and using it to describe that sound A) Onomatopoeia. B) Zeugma. C) Irony. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 5. Words that place limits on your claim and prevents you from overgeneralizing, or stereotyping A) Claim. B) Qualifiers. C) Examples. D) Anecdotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Qualifiers. 6. "History has shown time and again that absolute power corrupts absolutely." A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 7. The speaker of a text is ..... A) The name of the speaker alone. B) The name of the speaker and any background information. C) The writer. D) The person answering questions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The name of the speaker and any background information. 8. Attacking an opponent's character rather than his/her argument A) Slippery slope fallacy. B) Strawman fallacy. C) Bandwagon fallacy. D) Ad hominem fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ad hominem fallacy. 9. Several parts of a sentence or several sentences expressed in similar grammatical form to show that the ideas are equal in importance. Can add balance, rhythm and emphasis to ideas. (Often occurs with anaphora, epistrophe and/or juxtaposition.) Example: " ..... We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." (John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address) A) Parallelism. B) Anaphora. C) Hyperbole. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 10. Associations suggested by a word A) Mood. B) Paradox. C) Connotation. D) Colloquial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 11. The art of persuading someone through word choice or style. A) Rhetoric. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Suffrage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric. 12. Which In-Text Citation is this?(Gordon, pg.16) A) Chicago Manual Style. B) WHAT. C) MLA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) MLA. 13. Choose the word that rhymes with "epistrophe" A) Insensitive. B) Geography. C) Elephant. D) Excellent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geography. 14. As the butterfly emerges from its cocoon, so must you leave your comfort zone and experience the wider world. A) Juxtaposition. B) Analogy. C) Rhetorical sentence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 15. What is the perception of ethos? A) Reliability or dependability. B) Popularity or fame. C) Intelligence or knowledge. D) What leads us to trust them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What leads us to trust them. 16. "The school will reopen to year 9 students next week" Which word here is the subject of the sentence? A) Year 9 students. B) Open. C) The. D) The school. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The school. 17. This sentence is a fragment:The baseball teams in the National League. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. Recognize the rhetorical device in this statement: "The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." A) Hypallage. B) Hyperbaton. C) Epigram. D) Periphrasis. E) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epigram. 19. Expressing the same idea in different words to clarify or stress key points A) Logos. B) Hyperbole. C) Restatement. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Restatement. 20. "How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is." -Ogden Nash A) Anecdotes. B) Epistrophe. C) Hypophora. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypophora. ← 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