This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 371 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 371 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Exaggerated statements or claims used for emphasis, often not meant to be taken literally. A) Pathos. B) Hyperbole. C) Innovation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 2. The correct type of canons of rhetoric is? A) Invention, Arrangement, Style, Delivery, Memory. B) Invention, Style, Delivery, Memory. C) Invention, Arrangement, Style, Receive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Invention, Arrangement, Style, Delivery, Memory. 3. Each part of the rhetorical triangle is a ..... A) Rhetoric. B) Rhetorical appeal. C) Persuasive language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical appeal. 4. Humor in the serious action of a tragedy; enriches the quality of the work. A) Cliche. B) Comic Relief. C) Catharsis. D) Concrete Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comic Relief. 5. How is an author's PURPOSE best described? A) The topics the writer/speaker discusses. B) The goal the speaker wants to achieve through their text. C) The thesis statement of the text. D) The intended or targeted audience of the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The goal the speaker wants to achieve through their text. 6. Imagine Ava, Rohan, and Mason are watching a Ford Mustang commercial. How does the commercial appeal to their emotions and feelings, also known as pathos? A) By presenting logical arguments and facts about the Ford Mustang. B) By demonstrating the author's credibility and expertise on the Ford Mustang. C) By appealing to Ava, Rohan, and Mason's emotions and feelings about the Ford Mustang. D) By presenting a clear and concise message about the Ford Mustang. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By appealing to Ava, Rohan, and Mason's emotions and feelings about the Ford Mustang. 7. What does limitation mean? A) A principle that restricts the extent of something. B) A prominent attribute or aspect of something. C) A predisposition in favor of something. D) An aptitude that may be developed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A principle that restricts the extent of something. 8. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!" is ..... A) Alliteration. B) Synecdoche. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 9. A figure of speech in which a word or short phrase is omitted, but easily understood from the context; also the marks ( ..... ) that indicate the omission of a word or phrase. A) Antithesis. B) Ellipsis. C) Synecdoche. D) Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ellipsis. 10. What is Swift's claim? A) The English need to be treated better or they will start to eat children. B) The Irish need to handle their money better or they will have to sell children. C) The English should sell their children into Irish slavery to help their economy. D) The Irish should sell their babies to English butchers as a delicacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Irish should sell their babies to English butchers as a delicacy. 11. Focuses attention on the writer's/speaker's trustworthiness A) Appeal to logic (logos). B) Appeal to shared beliefs/values (ethos). C) Patriotism. D) Appeal to emotion (pathos). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to shared beliefs/values (ethos). 12. What type of irony is most akin to sarcasm A) Verbal Irony. B) Situation Irony. C) Kelly Irony. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal Irony. 13. Which rhetorical appeal appeals to the audience's emotions and feelings? A) Ethos. B) Weather. C) The rhetorical appeal that appeals to the audience's emotions and feelings is pathos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rhetorical appeal that appeals to the audience's emotions and feelings is pathos. 14. The common sentence structure in English is A) Verb-object-subject. B) Object-verb-subject. C) Subject-verb-object. D) Subject-subject-verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subject-verb-object. 15. Describes what the speaker wants the audience to think, feel or do. A) Message. B) Requirement. C) Context. D) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Purpose. 16. For the three days in April, people from around the world come to villages in China to celebrate the New Year at the Water Splashing Festival. Women wear yellow and pinkdresses and participate in traditional dancing. Children carve water toys out of bamboo and play with hoses in the streets. Other people race dragon boats across the river and floatpaper boats throughout the village. The festival is a tradition of the Dai community, who live in Southern China.What's the Author's Purpose? A) Persuade. B) Inform. C) Entertain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inform. 17. Logos definition A) The ethical appeal is based on the credibility and reliability or authority of the writer. B) The emotional appeal; appeals to an audience's needs, values, and emotional sensibilities. C) Uses facts, logic, organization, statistics, data, and/or more to convince. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uses facts, logic, organization, statistics, data, and/or more to convince. 18. Ethos, logos, and pathos are all examples of what? A) Euphemisms. B) Understatement. C) Rhetorical Appeals. D) Hyperboles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Appeals. 19. The following quote is an example of which technique? "And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to 'feel sorry' for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people's" (Lee 273). A) Loaded language. B) Parallel structure. C) Rhetorical question. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Loaded language. 20. Words or phrases that are substituted for other words or phrases being discussed in order to portray it in a more negative light. A) Parallelism. B) Polysyndeton. C) Dysphemism. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dysphemism. ← 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