This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 330 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 330 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Example:We shall pay the price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty (JFK's Inaugural Address) A) Metaphor. B) Anaphora. C) Parallelism. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 2. Takes one large concept and divides it into individual pieces; put items into categories; divide by characteristics A) Classification. B) Cause/effect. C) Argumentation. D) Comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Classification. 3. Referring to the government of the US as "Washington" A) Metonymy. B) Litotes. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 4. *the attitude given from the speaker's choice of words, examples, and claims. A) Tone. B) Audience. C) Hasty generalization. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 5. A means of convincing people to buy a certain product, believe something, act in a certain way, or agree with a point of view. A) Repetition. B) Pathos. C) Bandwagon. D) Persuasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Persuasion. 6. Aristotle discovered that there are three ways to appeal to (attract/interest) people: A) Ethically, comically, and slowly. B) Logically, emotionally, and ethically. C) Patiently, logically, and kindly. D) Financially, emotionally, and quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logically, emotionally, and ethically. 7. In which country did rhetoric form a key part of education in the 17th and 18th centuries? A) England. B) United States. C) Greece. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) England. 8. Correctly punctuate the following sentence:The dog sleeps in the bedroom and the boy sleeps in the doghouse. A) The dog sleeps in the bedroom and the boy sleeps in the doghouse. B) The dog sleeps in the bedroom, and the boy sleeps in the doghouse. C) The dog sleeps in the bedroom, the boy sleeps in the doghouse. D) The boy sleeps in the bedroom the boy sleeps in the doghouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dog sleeps in the bedroom, and the boy sleeps in the doghouse. 9. You said that, and I heard you. You yelled that, and I heard you. You ignored that, and I heard you. A) Anaphora. B) Juxtaposition. C) Pathos. D) Antistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antistrophe. 10. Argument in which general conclusions are drawn from specific facts A) Hyperbole. B) Inductive reasoning. C) Understatement. D) Meiosis. E) Missing the point. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inductive reasoning. 11. Rhetorical Device retpetiotion at the end of a line to emphasize a particular idea A) Anaphora. B) Parallelism. C) Epistrophe. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epistrophe. 12. When discussing an author's diction, you should ..... (choose all that apply) A) Use an adjective to characterize the diction. B) Not specifically describe it to keep it open to interpretation. C) Identify patterns. For example, does the writer mostly use words with a positive connotation or does the writer use multiple examples of juxtaposition throughout?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Identify patterns. For example, does the writer mostly use words with a positive connotation or does the writer use multiple examples of juxtaposition throughout?. 13. "You call this clean?" A) Rhetorical question. B) Emotional language. C) Facts and statistics. D) Over-exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 14. Figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or clauses; a string of words not separated by normally occurring conjunctions. A) Epistrophe. B) Unconnected. C) Tricolon. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unconnected. 15. Alone together A) Allusion. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 16. The purpose of low style is ..... A) To teach. B) To please. C) To move. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To teach. 17. Chris is the smartest student in the 9th grade. This is an example of ..... A) Direct Characterization. B) Indirect Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct Characterization. 18. What is a comparison using "like" or "as" ? An example is as follows: "She looked like a doll."" A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. The claim or main point A) Speaker. B) Message. C) Purpose. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Message. 20. What is the term for restating a passage in your own words? A) Summarizing. B) Text structure. C) Paraphrasing. D) Quoting. 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