This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 370 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 370 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Also known as false cause or coincidence vs. causality; the assumption that because one event follows another, the first is the cause of the second. Correlation does not equal Causation. A) Post Hoc. B) Loaded Words. C) False dilemma. D) Plain Folks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Post Hoc. 2. What does ethos refer to in rhetorical analysis? A) Appeal to ethics and credibility. B) A comparison of two unlike things. C) Appeal to emotions. D) Appeal to logic and reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to ethics and credibility. 3. What rhetorical strategy is being used in the following: "They've worked against everything we've worked so hard to build, and they don't care who gets hurt in the process. Make no mistake, they're the enemy, and they won't stop until we're all destroyed." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 4. MACDUFF:O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee! A) Paradox. B) Euphemism. C) Analogy. D) Conjugation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conjugation. 5. The speaker of a work is ..... A) The voice behind the work. B) Always the author of the work. C) A character in the story / poem. D) An orator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The voice behind the work. 6. The absence of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. A) Unrelated. B) Antithesis. C) Multi-connectors. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unrelated. 7. Including a series of items or ideas used for emphasis and to highlight quantity or variety for appeal A) Listing. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Listing. 8. Which of the following is the role of the source? A) Introduction, body, and conclusion. B) Encoder of the message creates the message, adapts the message, and transmits the message. C) Decoder of the message, hears and sees the message, interprets and evaluates the message, and responds to the message. D) Psychological Noise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Encoder of the message creates the message, adapts the message, and transmits the message. 9. What role does the audience play in a rhetorical situation? A) Receiver of information. B) Change agents. C) All of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 10. Using conjunctions to emphasize rhythm, and therefore emphasize a certain point. A) Personification. B) Synecdoche. C) Multi-connectors. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multi-connectors. 11. In the formula "A = C + E + R, " R stands for A) Rhetoric. B) Reasoning. C) Retrieval. D) Retention. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reasoning. 12. Apostrophe is ..... A) Breaking off discourse to address some absent, person, or thing, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent character. B) A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. C) The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Breaking off discourse to address some absent, person, or thing, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent character. 13. Repeated use of words or ideas for effect and emphasis A) Repetition. B) Rhetoric. C) Slogan. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 14. Objects are compared to each other-look for 'like' or 'as' A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 15. What is aposiopesis? A) A figure that is used the audience a question that is not supposed to be answered. B) A figure of when you deliberately broken off and left unfinished. C) A figure that compares two thing using like or as. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A figure of when you deliberately broken off and left unfinished. 16. Used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic is known as? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 17. Which mode of persuasion in rhetoric appeals to emotions and feelings? A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Mythos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 18. "I came, I saw, I conquered." ..... Julius Caesar This quote's main rhetorical device in use is A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 19. ..... is the art of persuasion. A) Argument. B) Rhetoric. C) Claim. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 20. What kind of appeal is made in the Lexus ad? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. 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