This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 356 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 356 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Awfully Good" and "Bitterly Sweet" is an example of a: A) Internal rhyme. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 2. In this sentence, "I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor-the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and the rights of others." Which rhetorical device is used? A) Parallelism. B) Restatement. C) Repetition. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restatement. 3. Juxtaposition Definition: A) Feelings the word evokes. B) The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side by side in order to compare/contrast the two. C) A daring statement which unites seemingly contradictory words but which on closer examination proves to have unexpected meaning and truth. D) A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side by side in order to compare/contrast the two. 4. Define "rhetoric" A) The art of persuasive movie-making. B) The art of informative writing or speaking. C) The art of effective persuasive writing or speaking. D) The art of writing or speaking for entertainment purposes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The art of effective persuasive writing or speaking. 5. The politician only managed to pass two pathetic laws before being ousted. A) Downplayers. B) Hinting. C) Straw man. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Downplayers. 6. What is a device that consists of exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect? A) Antithesis. B) Hyperbole. C) Rhetorical question. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 7. What is invention? A) The topic of a speech. B) The order of a speech. C) The expressions in a speech. D) How you perform a speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The topic of a speech. 8. Logical fallacies A) Presenting a situation as though there are only two possible outcomes, when in reality there are other possibilities, too. B) Errors in reasoning that make an argument invalid. C) Using a physical object as a visual aid to support what is being said. D) Repeated use of similar grammatical structures for emphasis and appeal to the ear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Errors in reasoning that make an argument invalid. 9. Your History teacher gives a classroom lecture about The United States Civil War. The first C in SPACECAT is: A) The Classroom. B) Your History Teacher. C) The principal. D) The Civil War. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Civil War. 10. The way the writer writes; individuality, through sentence patterns, and selection of details and words. A) Exposition. B) Hyperbole. C) Style. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Style. 11. ..... characterization TELLS the audience exactly what the personality or trait of the character is. A) Direct. B) Indirect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct. 12. Rhetorical device that compares unlike things to make the idea more relatable to the audience A) Pathos. B) Analogy. C) Allusion. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 13. True or False:The following is an example of a sentence with parallelism "The shape of the rock, and how big it was, and its color reminded me of a small elephant. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. This rhetorical device is used when non-human like objects or ideas are given human qualities. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. What type of propaganda technique is this? A) Name Calling. B) Fear. C) Pathos. D) Testimonial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fear. 16. Involves minimizing the importance of something/is a special kind of understatement which involves expressing a positive sentence using its negative form A) Tone/Attitude. B) Understatement/Litotes. C) Metonymy/Synecdoche. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement/Litotes. 17. What type of reasoning is used here?The doctor hears her patients symptoms, including the regular shortness of breath on cold days and when exercising and thinks that the best explanation of these symptoms is that her patient is an asthma sufferer. A) Deductive. B) Inductive. C) Abductive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abductive. 18. What is implied by a word (often quite different from the word's actual meaning) Example:The word "homework" always has a negative connotation. A) Allusion. B) Connotation. C) Alliteration. D) Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 19. ..... of a word is an idea or feeling that a word invokes. This is part of a speaker or writer's ..... example-calling someone "childish" vs. "youthful" A) Connotation, diction. B) Denotation, diction. C) Connotation, rhetorical device. D) Denotation, rhetorical device. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation, diction. 20. Oldest known humor theory A) Superiority theory. B) Relief theory. C) Incongruity theory. D) Benign-violation theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Superiority theory. ← 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