This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 379 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 379 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A question posed for effect, not requiring an answer. A) Personification. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Simile. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Question. 2. An appeal to the audience by playing on their emotions is what sort of means of persuasion? A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Dream. D) Delivery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 3. "Wherein could this flea guilty be, except in that drop which it sucked from thee?" A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Conduplication. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 4. Anthesis = variety of parallelism A) True. B) False. C) . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. What are the main goals of each sermon? A) MOVERE-start, encourage, inspire. B) DOCERE-to teach, to be informative. C) DELECTARE-to be an "entertainer", to animate the audience. D) All of the above. E) Only 1 and 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 6. "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 a video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut."Which appeal is this an example of? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 7. How does Douglass react to the Fourth of July? A) With ambivalence. B) He must rejoice. C) He must mourn. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He must mourn. 8. What is the following an example of:We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers-in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 9. A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, art, religion, politics, or popular culture. A) Ellipsis. B) Alliteration. C) Diction. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 10. The opposite of occult A) Ancient. B) Common. C) Arcane. D) Scholarly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Common. 11. Which rhetorical device is being used in the following quote:'Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.'? A) Rhetoric. B) Rhetorical question. C) Simile. D) Stereotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 12. A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics A) Parallelism. B) Personification. C) Multi-connector. D) Rhetorical Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. An election candidate speaking at a convention in Texas ends his speech with "Y'all come back now ya hear" is an example of ..... A) Pathos. B) Plain folk. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plain folk. 14. Example:dark comedy, open secret, jumb shrimp A) Anaphora. B) Logos. C) Pun. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 15. What is the Latin name for refutation in the six parts of classical rhetoric? A) Refutation. B) Refutatio. C) All of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refutatio. 16. How can ethos be used effectively in a speech to persuade the audience? A) By using logical reasoning and presenting facts and statistics. B) By establishing credibility and trustworthiness through evidence, credible sources, and expertise on the topic. C) By using emotional appeals and personal anecdotes. D) By using humor and entertaining the audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By establishing credibility and trustworthiness through evidence, credible sources, and expertise on the topic. 17. An example of a synecdoche is A) A hospital tried to revive him. B) The pen is mightier than the sword. C) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A hospital tried to revive him. 18. Joe or Ben left behind [ ..... ] backpack. A) Their. B) His. C) Its. D) His or her. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His. 19. You see a movie trailer on TV. You then want to go see the movie. What has the movie trailer done effectively? A) Inform you. B) Entertain you. C) Persuade you. D) Express theor feelings to you. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuade you. 20. "Give much, give often, give freely." A) Personification. B) Parallelism. C) Euphemism. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. ← 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