This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 381 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 381 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Loaded words A) Words-positive or negative-which are used to add logical reasoning to an argument. B) Words which are used to hide the truth of a situation. C) Words which elicit an emotional response-positive or negative-and persuade others to adopt a different point of view. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Words which elicit an emotional response-positive or negative-and persuade others to adopt a different point of view. 2. The first democracy was created in A) USA. B) Ancient Greece. C) France. D) Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ancient Greece. 3. The dictionary definition of a word, or what the word literally means A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 4. What is the definition of introduction paragraph? A) A specific, debatable claim with multiple reasons located at the end of the introduction paragraph. B) The 1st paragraph of the paper. The purpose of this paragraph is to tell the reader what the essay is about. C) The middle paragraphs of an essay. These paragraphs explain the thesis with reasons, evidence, and explanations. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 1st paragraph of the paper. The purpose of this paragraph is to tell the reader what the essay is about. 5. Fill in the blank: "The associations people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition. Many words have ..... that create emotions or feelings in the reader." A) Allusions. B) Hyperboles. C) Connotations. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotations. 6. The use of specific words, imagery, music, colors, attitudes, etc. are examples of what type of rhetorical strategy? A) Choices. B) Appeals. C) Tone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 7. Words spoken by a character directly to the audience or to another character onstage but not overheard by others onstage A) Euphemism. B) Ellipses. C) Aside. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aside. 8. How many sentences does a rhetorical precis usually contain? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 9. What device is best represented here? "I came, I saw, I conquered." A) Multi-connector. B) Unconnected. C) Anaphora. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unconnected. 10. Consider the following sentence:We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization-black people amongst black, white people amongst white, filled with hatred toward one another.Which rhetorical strategies are employed? A) Tetracolon and ellipsis. B) Chiasmus and epistrophe. C) Polysyndeton and paradox. D) Asyndeton and antithesis . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asyndeton and antithesis . 11. "Chick fil A is the greatest food chain in existence. Look at the crowds!" A) Slippery Slope. B) Bandwagon. C) False Cause and Effect. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bandwagon. 12. A romantic poem with the end rhyme pattern of AB/CB. This poem also tells a story. A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Lyric. D) None listed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 13. An attitude toward the subject A) Tone. B) Arrangement. C) Exemplification. D) Narration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 14. What is the meaning of scheme? A) A mathematical or logical program or process. B) A plot to deceive or defraud someone. C) A color or pattern used in art or design. D) A figurative speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds, rather than meaning of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A figurative speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds, rather than meaning of words. 15. "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life."What type of rhetoric is this? A) Logical Appeal. B) Emotional Appeal. C) Deductive Argument. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional Appeal. 16. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of a phrase for emphasis? A) Simile. B) Chiasmus. C) Anaphora. D) Folding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 17. Repeats a word or phrase in successive phrases. A) Commoratio. B) Anaphora. C) Repetition. D) Folding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 18. ..... is a literary device wherein the author places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to another. The purpose of this technique is to highlight the contrast between two entities and compare them. A) Rhetorical Question. B) Parallelism. C) Juxtaposition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 19. The following words are an example of ..... fat, old, liar, slavery, nerd, villain, etc. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Rhetorical question. D) Loaded language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loaded language. 20. Finish this sentence:Rhetoric is the art of A) Declaration. B) Persuasion. C) Argumentation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persuasion. ← 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