This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 374 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 374 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which Rhetorical Device is shown in the following sentence: "After reviewing all the evidence, I agree. They disagree." A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Unconnected. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unconnected. 2. The people whom a speaker or writer WANTS to hear their speech or see their writing A) General Audience. B) Target Audience. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Target Audience. 3. Sentence construction that places equal grammatical construction near each other A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Paradox. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 4. This branch of oratory exhibits this trait by praising a person deserving of honor or blaming someone for a notorious action A) Judicial. B) Epideictic. C) Deliberative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epideictic. 5. Begins with a specific observation and applies to a broad conclusion A) Abductive Reasoning. B) Deductive Reasoning. C) Inductive Reasoning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inductive Reasoning. 6. Match the technique to the appropriate appeal:sob story A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 7. "I have a dream that one day ..... I have a dream that one day ..... I have a dream that one day ..... "What rhetorical devise is used? A) Parallelism. B) Epistrophe. C) Anaphora. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 8. Who wrote the most influential text on rhetoric in Western history? A) Aristotle. B) Frederick Douglass. C) Abraham Lincoln. D) Socrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 9. In ethos, the writer or speaker presents himself or herself to the audience as A) Ethical. B) Unethical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethical. 10. What is this an example of: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury:we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery ..... We also have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 11. One who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder A) Interloper. B) Lassitude. C) Bombastic. D) Epitome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interloper. 12. The following statement is an example of what literary term?Tom Robinson is innocent and should be free to return to his family. A) Pathos. B) Bathos. C) Argument. D) Didactic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Argument. 13. Figurative language like metaphors, repetition, etc. are what type of rhetorical strategy? A) Choices. B) Appeals. C) Tone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Choices. 14. The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of successive or close words. A) Anaphora. B) Unconnected. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 15. Read this sentence.The customer service representative was asked to deal with customers kindly, professionally, and in a helpful manner. In this sentence, how is kindly, professionally, and in a helpful correctly written? A) As it is. B) Kindly, professionally, and helpfully. C) Kindly, to be professional, and helpful. D) Customers kindly, to be professional, and to be helpful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kindly, professionally, and helpfully. 16. What is the correct description of low or plain style? A) Simple, direct, straightforward. B) Aims for clarity. C) Aims for understanding. D) Fiery emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple, direct, straightforward. 17. This is Greek for "character" ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Weather. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 18. Greek term that means "word", an appeal to logic A) Legos. B) Logos. C) Brain. D) Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 19. A literary device that refers to the juxtaposition of two opposing elements through parallel grammatical structure. A) Anecdote. B) Anaphora. C) Oxymoron. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anecdote. 20. When MLK Jr. says, "we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check, " he is using ..... A) Anaphora. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. ← 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