This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 363 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 363 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. One of the four chief types of composition; the purpose is to explain something A) Exposition. B) Narrative. C) Thesis. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 2. The term philippic is A) Speech against Philip II of Macedon. B) Speech against Philip I of Macedon. C) Writing speeches for others, mostly plaintiffs and defendants, in order to survive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speech against Philip II of Macedon. 3. "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina." A) Restatement. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Restatement. 4. An Appeal that relies on trusted or professional advice A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 5. "He is as brave as a lion." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Litotes. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 6. What is a scheme? A) An artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea is expressed. B) An artful variation from the typical arrangement of words in a sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An artful variation from the typical arrangement of words in a sentence. 7. In SOAPSTone, the A is representative of the group of people whom the piece is directed. A) Attendees. B) Audience. C) Affiliations. D) Artists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Audience. 8. Which kind of figurative language is used in the sentence below? The pink pig played in the puddle. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration tags4L5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration tags4L5. 9. President Reagan was a great communicator because he had the knack of talking effectively to the people. A) Bandwagon Appeal. B) To Man. C) Circular Reasoning. D) Hasty Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circular Reasoning. 10. Freedom from oppression or arbitrary control. A) Revolutionise. B) Liberty. C) Rhetoric. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Liberty. 11. You must use all 3 elements of rhetoric for the best chance of persuasion. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Repetition, Alliteration, and Parallelism appeal to the audience how? A) They help the audience understand a concept that is difficult. B) They help the audience gain insight and clarity. C) They help the audience remember something and motivate them to act. D) They create biases in the audience and appeal to the credibility of the speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They help the audience remember something and motivate them to act. 13. She at jumbo shrimp for dinner last night. This sentence has an example of ..... A) Oxymoron. B) Imagery. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 14. Which industry uses Ethos as it's most common way to advertise by using celebrities? A) Newspapers. B) Sporting Goods. C) Airlines. D) The Government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sporting Goods. 15. Frederick Douglass gave his "Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society" in what year? A) 1861. B) 1865. C) 1831. D) 1920. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1865. 16. The sentence below is an example of which rhetorical device?It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place. A) Anaphora. B) Auxesis. C) Antithesis. D) Periphrasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 17. "The proper function of man is to live, not to die" (London). A) Multi-connector. B) Antithesis. C) Merism. D) Synesthesia. E) Silence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 18. Sometimes referred to as the modes of discourse A) Diction. B) Rhetorical modes. C) Style. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical modes. 19. Persuasion through appeals to the audience's emotions. A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Immediate Audience. D) Inductive Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 20. Didactic A) At the most basic sense, saying theopposite of what you mean; alsoused to describe situations in whichthe results of an action aredramatically different than intended. B) Placing two very different thingstogether for effect. C) How the different parts of anargument are arranged in a piece ofwriting or speech. D) A text with an instructive purpose, often moral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A text with an instructive purpose, often moral. ← 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