This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 360 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 360 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "If you don't fill out your college applications early, you will be looked at last by the admissions teams." Which appeal would describe this sentence BEST. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Migos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 2. What two aspects of Swift's writing clearly indicate Swift's purpose? A) His attention to detail and honesty. B) His imagery and statistics. C) His irony and understatement. D) His grammar and organization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His irony and understatement. 3. The pencil danced across the page is an example of what figurative language? A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. Imagine you're Michael, a speaker at a school event. What should you, as Michael, consider when thinking about the audience of your message? A) The argument, perspective, or call to action. B) The different rhetorical moves and strategies. C) Prior knowledge, values, beliefs, and biases of your classmates like Aria and Grace. D) The time, place, and social context. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prior knowledge, values, beliefs, and biases of your classmates like Aria and Grace. 5. A narrator referred to as "I, " who is a character in a story and relates the actions through his or her own perspective. A) First Person narrator. B) Objective. C) Omniscient. D) Limited Omniscient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First Person narrator. 6. Repetition at the beginning of a line A) Anaphora. B) Repetition. C) Epistrophe. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 7. Pathos tries to appeal to someone's ..... A) Emotions and Feelings. B) Logic and Reasoning. C) Ethics and Credibilty. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotions and Feelings. 8. "The welfare of the wage worker, the welfare of the tiller of the soil-upon these depend the welfare of the entire country. Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made." -Theodore Roosevelt, 'The Man with the Muck-Rake, ' a speech that was part of a campaign against corruption, April 14, 1906. This quote contains an example of ..... : A) Ethos. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 9. Convincing an audience by appealing to their emotions. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 10. When you are aware of your own bias prejudcies and attitudes towards certain groups A) Voluntary response. B) Explicit bias. C) Implied bias. D) Confirmation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Explicit bias. 11. Which device is used in the following sentence? It is the way to recovery. It is the immediate way. It is the strongest assurance that recovery will endure. A) Rhyme. B) Symbolism. C) Simile. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 12. This persuasive technique involves selecting powerful connotations of words or phrases to help our argument. A) Loaded Words. B) Bandwagon. C) Testimonial. D) Slogans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Loaded Words. 13. How can we describe what a message is? A) It is the reason why the speaker wants to communicate their thoughts. B) It is the specific occasion or event that prompted the writer to communicate their thoughts. C) It is what the writer or speaker wants the audience to think or know. D) It is who is doing the writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is what the writer or speaker wants the audience to think or know. 14. An image that represents a large or abstract idea. A) SYMBOL. B) SIMILE. C) ALLUSION. D) ANECDOTE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SYMBOL. 15. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Anaphora. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. Greta is famous for saying that we have to "drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C." A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -GandhiThis is an example of a(n) ..... A) Aphorism. B) Paradox. C) Multi-connectors. D) Diacope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 18. "Doctors all over the world recommend this type of treatment." A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 19. Identify the type of figurative language being used:"The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world ..... " A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Logos. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 20. Pick the term that matches the definition:a matter dealt with in a text, discourse, or conversation A) Topic. B) Parallel Structure. C) Antithesis. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Topic. ← 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