This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 350 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 350 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I went to town to buy a gown. / I took the car, and it wasn't far. I had a cat who wore a hat. / He looked cool but felt the fool. I lost my dog in the midst of fog. A) Rhetorical question. B) Slant rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 2. Appeal to people's emotions through storytelling. A) Stereotype. B) Rhetoric Device. C) Celebrity Endorsement. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdote. 3. Who was St. Augustine? A) A civil rights activist. B) An abolitionist. C) A 4th and 5th century monk. Dr. King references him in "Letter from Birmingham Jail" . D) A segregationist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A 4th and 5th century monk. Dr. King references him in "Letter from Birmingham Jail" . 4. Most people in ancient Greece were disenfranchised. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. This can give the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account. Picks up the pace, creating urgency among other things. Ex. On his return he received medals, honors, treasures, titles, fame. A) Unrelated. B) Apostrophe. C) Syntax. D) Multi-connectors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unrelated. 6. Which tribe was the first tribe to sign the treaty that was presented? A) Seminoles. B) Choctaws. C) Chickasaws. D) The Creeks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Choctaws. 7. Whom is Douglass addressing? A) White men and women. B) Black men. C) White men. D) Men and women of all races. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) White men. 8. In sum, the Internet does not replace the need for librarians, and librarians are hardly obsolete.Like books, librarians have been around for a long time, but the Internet is extremely useful for many types of research.Which choice most clearly ends the passage with a restatement of the writer's primary claim? A) NO CHANGE. B) Although their roles have diminished significantly, librarians will continue to be employed by public libraries for the foreseeable future. C) The growth of electronic information has led to a diversification of librarians' skills and services, positioning them as savvy resource specialists for patrons. D) However, given their extensive training and skills, librarians who have been displaced by budget cuts have many other possible avenues of employment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The growth of electronic information has led to a diversification of librarians' skills and services, positioning them as savvy resource specialists for patrons. 9. A logical fallacy that assumes once an action begins it will lead, undeterred, to an eventual and inevitable conclusion A) Slippery slope. B) Spatial ordering. C) Spotlight fallacy. D) Stacking the deck. E) Straw man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slippery slope. 10. This is the repetition found at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, lines. A) Antimetabole. B) Anaphora. C) Folding. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 11. A short and amusing or interesting story about an incident or person A) Rhetoric. B) Allusion. C) Anecdote. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anecdote. 12. Define:Amplification A) A rhetorical term for all the ways that an argument, explanation, or description can be expanded and enriched. B) A figure of repetition in which words or phrases or sentences are arranged in order of increasing intensity or importance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rhetorical term for all the ways that an argument, explanation, or description can be expanded and enriched. 13. A classification, characterization, assumption A) Propaganda. B) Stereotype. C) Bias. D) Aphorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stereotype. 14. Everyday speech; slang A) Delineate. B) Nefarious. C) Vernacular. D) Brawn. E) Tout. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vernacular. 15. Which section of classical rhetoric is responsible for addressing and refuting opposing points? A) Refutatio. B) Narratio. C) Partition. D) Peroratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refutatio. 16. Romeo finds Juliet in a drugged state and he thinks she is dead. He kills himself. When Juliet wakes up, she finds Romeo dead and kills herself. A) Irony. B) Appeal to fear. C) Contrast. D) Corrective measures. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 17. You send a text message to your best friend. Your mom reads the message. Your mom is the A) Real audience. B) Intended audience. C) Doesn't matter what my mom is because I am dead once she reads my message. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Real audience. 18. "our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, are constants in our character." Barack Obama, Inauguration Address This quote is an example of A) Ethos and logos. B) Parallelism and ethos. C) Alliteration and ethos. D) Pathos and alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration and ethos. 19. What is the term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses? A) Epistrophe. B) Anaphora. C) Multi-connector. D) Unconnected. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 20. Repeating the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses, and sentences, or paragraphs. A) Anaphora. B) Euphemism. C) Epistrophe. D) Hyperbole. 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