This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 344 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 344 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The breaking of a legal oath A) Abjure. B) Perjury. C) Conjure. D) Legitimize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perjury. 2. What is the purpose of figurative language in rhetorical devices? A) To create vivid imagery. B) To engage the audience. C) To enhance the passage's title. D) To provide concise information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To engage the audience. 3. Logic, reasoning A) Exposition. B) Tone. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 4. Ans drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Epigram. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 5. Which answer choice best captures a common purpose for an author writing a memoir? A) To share trials, tribulations, and adversities with their audience. B) To warn their audience not to make the same mistakes they did in life. C) To inform their reading with facts regarding their own life. D) To inform their reader with facts regarding the lives of others. E) To brag about their own accomplishments to their audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To share trials, tribulations, and adversities with their audience. 6. How do anecdotes help in speeches? A) By providing short, personal stories or examples. B) By making a topic more relatable. C) By illustrating a point. D) By summarizing the main ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By providing short, personal stories or examples. 7. What is the following an example of?"My three decades of experience in public service, my tireless commitment to the people of this community, and my willingness to reach across the aisle and cooperate with the opposition, make me the ideal candidate for your mayor." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 8. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. A) Logos (Appeal to Logic). B) Pathos (Appeal to Emotion). C) Ethos (Appeal to Ethics). D) Kairos (Appeal to Seizing the Right Moment). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kairos (Appeal to Seizing the Right Moment). 9. Which literary device is a comparison between two things, people, or places using 'like' or 'as'? A) Consonance. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 10. Judy Glen's amazing Wrinkle Remover cream will make you look younger in thirty days or less. This remarkable cream has special ingredients to make your wrinkles disappear. The cost for a thirty day supply is $ 25.99. Send your check to P.O.Box 00002, Shelton, CA 74836 A) To Inform. B) To Entertain. C) To Persuade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To Persuade. 11. Have you seen two pretty best friends? A) Hh. B) Dd. C) Dddd. D) Dd. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hh. 12. Presenting a unqualified source as a credible source is called ..... A) Appeal to false authority. B) Scare tactic. C) Straw man. D) Sentimental appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to false authority. 13. According to the Persuasion article, the fact that we persuade, and are persuaded, so often means that we are all persuasion experts. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. What type of sentence is this: "In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in." A) Cumulative Sentence. B) Periodic Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periodic Sentence. 15. A more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable. "He went to his final reward" is a common one. A) Discourse. B) Connotation. C) Example. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 16. Pizza is my Achilles' heel, so I don't even drive by Papa John's on my way home from work when I'm dieting. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 17. Ethos, pathos, and logos are examples of what rhetorical strategy? A) Choices. B) Appeals. C) Tone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeals. 18. Using language effectively to argue or persuade A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Rhetoric. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 19. The torch of wisdom has been passed on to a new generation. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Anaphora. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. With low taxes, beautiful views and a mild climate, this city is a great place to live. A) Loose Sentence. B) Periodic Sentence. 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