This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 375 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 375 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated and then more detail is added to draw attention to that word/phrase A) Parallelism. B) Amplification. C) Anaphora. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amplification. 2. Refers to the creation and developmentof characters, the "people" who carry onthe action in a literary work. A) Antagonist. B) Protagonist. C) Setting. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Characterization. 3. Does a claim have to be arguable? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 4. Syntax allows the author to manipulate what the reader pays attention to. As a reader, when you identify what an author emphasizes, this helps you find the main idea. What questions should you ask as you read? A) Why is this emphasized over that?. B) What is the emphasis supposed to show us?. C) Is the author hiding something deeper under the emphasis of something else?. D) When analyzing syntax, especially ideas that seem to be emphasized due to syntax, you should ask ALL of these questions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When analyzing syntax, especially ideas that seem to be emphasized due to syntax, you should ask ALL of these questions. 5. YOUR ANSWER TO #5 A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C. 6. Pathos is a term used to describe what? A) An appeal to emotion in persuasive rhetoric or other forms of writing. B) An appeal to logic in a logical rhetoric or other forms of writing. C) An appeal to fact in persuasive rhetoric or other forms of writing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An appeal to emotion in persuasive rhetoric or other forms of writing. 7. Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?A text written to evoke haste in responding to the declining Florida panther population discusses the implication of panther mortality rates. A) Ethos. B) Weather. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weather. 8. Which of the following is NOT included in feminist criticism? A) Reconceptualizing rhetorical tradition with the consideration of gender. B) Including feminist perspective in existing rhetorical theory. C) All answers are included in feminist criticism. D) Creating a new rhetorical theory that reflects all people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All answers are included in feminist criticism. 9. This is a conclusion that oversimplifies the argument by reducing it to only two sides or choices. A) Slippery Slope. B) Hasty Generalization. C) Either/Or False Dilemma. D) Moral Equivalence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Either/Or False Dilemma. 10. An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something A) Quackery. B) Demagogy. C) Sycophancy. D) Exhortation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exhortation. 11. Welcome to National Park Watch for signs along the trail. They will tell you about the trees, plants, and animals that live here. The trail is six miles long and takes the average person two hours to hike. There are two rest stops along the way. A) To persuade. B) To inform. C) To entertain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To inform. 12. The "O" of our SOAPS acronym A) Occasion. B) Order. C) Ontological. D) Odor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occasion. 13. Abraham Lincoln delivers his second inaugural address after being re-elected as president during the Civil War. What is the EXIGENCE of his speech? A) A Lincoln's second inauguration. B) B coming end of the Civil War, North winning and South losing, slavery is the dividing factor, need to unify nation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Lincoln's second inauguration. 14. The appeal based on logic or reason: A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 15. " ..... instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check ..... " A) Understatement. B) Alliteration. C) Multi-connectors. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understatement. 16. An opinion is A) Something that can be proven. B) Always based on facts. C) A view or judgement about something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A view or judgement about something. 17. The art of rhetoric developed to assist speakers in which context? A) Legal Court. B) Giving poetic speeches on stage. C) Educating in university. D) Ceremonious presentations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Legal Court. 18. What term best fits this definition:the repetition of similar words, forms, and structures to help emphasize a point? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Parallelism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 19. Which Rhetorical Device is shown in the following sentence: "The data is perfectly clear:this investment has consistently turned a profit year-over-year, even in spite of market declines in other areas." A) Appeal to Ethos. B) Appeal to Logos. C) Appeal to Pathos. D) Appeal to Kairos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to Logos. 20. A change in the pattern of words in the formation of a sentence. Normally, it is the changing of structure with words. A) Parallelism. B) Juxtaposition. C) Consonance. D) Inverted syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inverted syntax. ← 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