Rhetoric Quiz 368 (20 MCQs)

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1. "You are easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart."What rhetorical devise is used?

Correct Answer: C) Antithesis.

2. An argument based on a personal attack on someone's character.

Correct Answer: B) To man.

3. Who coined the rhetorical tools?

Correct Answer: C) Aristotle.

4. Which is not a form of repetition?

Correct Answer: D) Antithesis.

5. The repetition of the BEGINNING sounds of words Ex:the high-hung hall in the distance

Correct Answer: B) Alliteration.

6. The best example of parallelism is .....

Correct Answer: B) My four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

7. Define the root:Loc

Correct Answer: B) Place.

8. Which rhetorical device is used? The story told of a pauper, a person without wealth, who had big dreams.

Correct Answer: B) Restatement.

9. A type of literary work, such as a novel or poem-there are also "subs" of this such as novels may be science-fiction, romance, horror, etc.

Correct Answer: C) Genre.

10. The reciter is not the creator of the content he is saying.

Correct Answer: A) Exactly.

11. Laziness

Correct Answer: D) Sloth.

12. "It was a rather serious evening, you know."-Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon describing his survival of the sinking of the Titanic

Correct Answer: C) Understatement.

13. What rhetorical element is being used in this statement?"Dog noses are wet to help absorb scent chemicals."

Correct Answer: B) Logos.

14. When the writer begins with an independent clause and then adds subordinate elements

Correct Answer: D) Cumulative sentence.

15. The term that means a repetition of vowel sounds is

Correct Answer: C) Assonance.

16. "If we don't move soon, we're all going to die! Can't you see how dangerous it would be to stay?" (a)

Correct Answer: C) A pathos.

17. The formation of a word from the sound it makes

Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia.

18. The author provided a bar chart to support his point of view. What does the bar chart show?

Correct Answer: A) The decline in students taking summer classes from 1980s-2000s.

19. Which rhetorical appeal appeals to the audience's emotions?

Correct Answer: A) Pathos.

20. Which of the of the following characters is credited with developing the art of rhetoric?

Correct Answer: D) Silent.