This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 333 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 333 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island. A) Use of hyperbole. B) Use of epistrophe. C) Use of anaphora. D) Use oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use of anaphora. 2. Listing three words or phrases. A) Alliteration. B) Power of Three/Triplet. C) Repetition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Power of Three/Triplet. 3. Mark Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)-the greatest orator and one of the prominent statesmen..... in his era. A) Of ancient Rome. B) Ancient Greece. C) Mesopotamia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Of ancient Rome. 4. A United States senator creates a list of people to be questioned about possible links to communism, and he actually calls the people on the list "communists." The list is published to be viewed by America. A) Name-calling. B) Plain folks. C) Card-stacking. D) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Name-calling. 5. REMEMBER:What is the connotation of a word? A) The definition of a word. B) The feeling or vibe of a word. C) The synonyms for the word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The feeling or vibe of a word. 6. Identify the rhetorical appeal used:If we don't adopt the puppy, he may never find a home! A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 7. Rhetorical choice-the literal dictionary definition of a word A) Anaphora. B) Juxtaposition. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Denotation. 8. "I walked a million miles to get here" is an example of: A) Rhetoric. B) Situational irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 9. An attempt to influence how others think or act. A) Persuasion. B) Concession. C) Opinion. D) Expert Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persuasion. 10. Chocolate is my cryptonite. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 11. The repetition of grammaticalelements is used to create aharmonious effect.What you see is what you get.Easy come, easy go. A) Hyperbole. B) Paradox. C) Anaphora. D) Parallel Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallel Structure. 12. Donate just $ 1 a day to starving children. Make sure no one goes hungry under your watch.What type of rhetorical appeal does this statement use? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 13. Adjectives that modify or describe the subject of a sentence or clause and a linked to the subject by a linking verbex. Elizabeth is hungry. A) Predicate nominative. B) Predicate adjective. C) Paradox. D) Loose sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predicate adjective. 14. Pick the term that matches the definition:the argument being presented to an audience A) Evidence. B) Claim. C) Choices. D) Appeals. E) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Claim. 15. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Tik Tok are all examples of electronic media A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. An auxiliary science that deals with the concept of beauty and develops a feeling for beauty (inner and outer beauty, i.e. beauty of thought and beauty of form). A) Ethics. B) Stylistics. C) Aesthetics. D) Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aesthetics. 17. The way a writer uses words to describe events, objects, or ideas.The way an author writers (his/her voice). A) Speech. B) Sub-claim. C) Style. D) Claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Style. 18. Hasty generalization A) Using an ambiguous term in more than one sense, thus making an argument misleading. B) A type of informal fallacy in which something is falsely claimed to be an either/or situation, when in fact there is at least one additional option. C) A fallacy that occurs when an analogy compares two things that are not comparable. D) Refers to the setting up of a cause-and-effect relationship when none exists. E) Occurs when the proponent uses too small of a sample size to support a sweeping generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Occurs when the proponent uses too small of a sample size to support a sweeping generalization. 19. Panegyric belongs A) Political speeches. B) With words of praise. C) Military speeches. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With words of praise. 20. Recognize the rhetorical device in this sentence: "Her smile was a ray of sunshine." A) Zeugma. B) Tautology. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. E) Simile tagsrhetoric. 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