This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 340 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 340 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. She was wearing cowboy boots in her last Instagram photo, so she must love country music. A) To Man. B) Hasty Generalization. C) Bandwagon. D) Slippery Slope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hasty Generalization. 2. Which mode of persuasion appeals to the emotions of the audience in an argument? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Requirement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 3. When Douglass describes how Mr. Hugh's wife's "tender heart became stone, this is an example of a(n): A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 4. I ask you, what's your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Rhetorical question. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical question. 5. When using ethos, you are building ..... A) Emotions. B) Trust. C) Knowledge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trust. 6. Greek for "suffering" or "experience." Speakers appeal to ..... to emotionally motivate their audience. More specific appeals to ..... might play on the audience's values, desires, and hopes, on the one hand, or fears and prejudices on the other. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 7. What is the correct description of high or grand style? A) Simple, direct, straightforward. B) Aims for clarity and understanding. C) Ornate speech, diction and fiery emotion. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ornate speech, diction and fiery emotion. 8. Brief personal stories that illustrate a point A) Facts. B) Statistics. C) Examples. D) Anecdotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdotes. 9. Mark wanted to be a great skater. But he didn't want to spend the hours practicing. He wished he could just do the tricks easily. Mark's dream was to have everyone stop and stare when he entered the skate park. He wanted them to say, "Mark is the best skater in the whole world."What is the controlling idea? A) Mark wants everyone to think he's a great skater without doing the hard work. B) Mark practices very hard to become a great skater. C) Mark is the best skater at the park. D) Mark wants to learn how to skate so he can compete. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mark wants everyone to think he's a great skater without doing the hard work. 10. A room without books is like a body without a soul. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Anaphora. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 11. Persuading by using logic and reasoning-Ex. "The data clearly shows that this type of investment yields the highest returns." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 12. Knowing where your information comes from (sources) and the way it affects your audience are equally important when planning a talk. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Ethos is the appeal that uses ..... Ethos es el atractivo que utiliza ..... A) Credibility. B) Emotions. C) Logic. D) All threelos tres. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Credibility. 14. What is the adjective in the sentence below:The patron is a brilliant painter. A) Patron. B) Brilliant. C) Painter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brilliant. 15. Which question is NOT an adjective question? A) What kind of?. B) What time of?. C) Which?. D) How many?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What time of?. 16. What is this an example of:As he went outside for the first time that day, it felt as if the sun was smiling down at him. A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 17. What is the main difference between Brutus' and Antony's funeral orations (speeches)? A) Brutus offends the Roman plebians; Antony wins their approval. B) Brutus focuses on Caesar; Antony focuses on Rome's greatness. C) Brutus argues that Caesar was ambitious; Antony argues that Caesar wasn't ambitious. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brutus argues that Caesar was ambitious; Antony argues that Caesar wasn't ambitious. 18. Define Juxtapose A) Equal or similar grammatical elements used side by side. B) To list. C) To write around a subject. D) To place side by side in order to show similarities or differences. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To place side by side in order to show similarities or differences. 19. Making you feel sad: A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 20. What is the definition of the logical fallacy, hasty generalization? A) A conclusion based on the thought that if something happens, it will cause a ripple of other effects. B) A conclusion based on insufficient or biased evidence. C) A conclusion that if something happened after an event, the event must have caused it. D) A conclusion that restates the argument rather than actually proving it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A conclusion based on insufficient or biased evidence. ← 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