This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 35 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 35 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Using a brand to instill trust in a product or idea, or a review to convince another is a persuasive strategy called ..... A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 2. "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." A) Pun. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 3. Define:Asyndeton A) The placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination. B) The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. 4. What tone is Hale conveying in the following passage?"If you think God wills you to raise rebellion you are mistaken" A) Persuasive. B) Sarcastic. C) Authoritative. D) Apologetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Authoritative. 5. Use of an unreliable narrator A) Modernist. B) Contemporary. C) Realist. D) Romantic. E) Colonial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contemporary. 6. Imagine you're a lawyer in a heated debate. Which secret weapon of persuasion would you use to highlight the urgency and importance of your case? A) Rhetoric. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weather. 7. Who said it?' ..... we will put the enemy in the position where they will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death.' A) Germaine Greer. B) Janet Street Porter. C) Sojourner Truth. D) Emmeline Pankhurst. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emmeline Pankhurst. 8. A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something. A) Pathos. B) Claim. C) Tone. D) Polemic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polemic. 9. The time period/place in which a text is written; it influences the audience's mood and dictates their values or needs. A) Audience. B) Context. C) Requirement. D) Appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Context. 10. A fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. A) Red Herring. B) Either Or. C) Call to Action. D) Prizes, Sweepstakes, and gifts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Herring. 11. Children in America born after 2000 have a 1 in 3 chance of getting diabetes which is directly related to diet. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Logos and pathos. E) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logos and pathos. 12. *the outcome or intention for giving the speech. A) Tone. B) Audience. C) Purpose. D) Hasty generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purpose. 13. The writer incorporates aspects of their personal experience into the text-look for 'I' A) Anecdote. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anecdote. 14. A scheme in which the same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. Example: "I believe we should fight for justice. You believe we should fight for justice. How can we not, then, fight for justice?" A) Antithesis. B) Epistrophe. C) Syllogism. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 15. "Tell them to be good, tell them to follow their elders, and tell them to mind their manners." -Is an example of what? A) Anaphora. B) Loaded Words. C) Jargon. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 16. What is the meaning of syntax? A) Syntax is a type of programming language. B) Syntax refers to the visual appearance of code. C) Syntax is the process of debugging code. D) The agreement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The agreement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences. 17. Which rhetorical appeal likes to use charities, celebrities, and professionals to add to their credibility? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 18. An appeal to credibility is ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 19. Rhetorical device that appeals to one's ethics and tries to paint the speaker as credible and trustworthy A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 20. Baby Grand Pianotwo contradictory words put together A) Pun. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. ← 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