This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 382 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 382 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the appeal: "Our expertise in roofing contracts is evidenced not only by our 50 years in the business and our staff of qualified technicians, but in the decades of satisfied customers who have come to expect nothing but the best." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 2. Complete the sentence using parallel structure:In preparation for her run, Alicia ....., applied sunscreen, and inserted her earbuds. A) Tightened her shoelaces. B) Was tightening her shoelaces. C) Did tighten her shoelaces. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tightened her shoelaces. 3. Who was Frederick Douglass' intended audience for his autobiography? A) Slave owners and white overseers. B) Well-intentioned but ignorant white people. C) Enslaved people (current and former). D) Free-born Northern Black people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Well-intentioned but ignorant white people. 4. Which example shows correct parallel structure? A) Recommended exercise includes to run, to swim, and cycling. B) Recommended exercise includes running, swimming, and cycling. C) Recommended exercise includes running, swimming, and to cycle. D) Recommended exercise includes running, to swim, and cycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recommended exercise includes running, swimming, and cycling. 5. Making a comparison between two things A) Simile. B) Jargon. C) Appeal to patriotism. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. Aims to provide readers with information to formulate their own opinion and participate in matters that will affect them A) Political. B) Problem/solution. C) Process analysis. D) Picaresque. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Political. 7. After saying that using a seatbelt could save your life, someone replies:"Why should anyone believe you? You're untrustworthy." A) False dilemma. B) Bandwagon. C) Strawman. D) To man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To man. 8. Which of the following types of figurative language is represented in the example below?A text incorporates sound reasoning supported by the citation of relevant statistics in order to attract monetary support for legislation proposed to protect endangered species. A) Ethos. B) Weather. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 9. Which rhetorical appeal relies on the expertise or authority of someone to persuade? A) Ethos. B) Weather. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 10. "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I lovedRome more." is an example of: A) Allusion. B) Antithesis. C) Chiasmus. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chiasmus. 11. An allusion is a reference to a famous person or event. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 12. Sun can have different connotations depending on the ..... A) Requirement. B) Context. C) Symbolism. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Context. 13. When an author references a historical or biblical figure the strategy is called a/an A) Epithet. B) Allusion. C) Sinedoche. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 14. The ..... of it is that the promoters have been allowed to get away with it. A) Torpor. B) Infamy. C) Solicitation. D) Reconciliation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Infamy. 15. Michael Prince went up to the podium with his speech I wasn't prepared for the flood of emotion. A) NO CHANGE. B) Speech, which. C) Speech that. D) Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speech. 16. Consider the rhetorical triangle. Logos is related to A) The speaker. B) The audience. C) The message. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The message. 17. Lee Greenwood's song God Bless the USA became very popular after the September 11 attacks. This is an example of ..... A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Empathy. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 18. Define occasion A) The time and place a speech is given or a piece of writing is created. What the text is about. B) Meanings that readers assign to words that go beyond the dictionary definition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The time and place a speech is given or a piece of writing is created. What the text is about. 19. Scaring you: A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 20. The thesis or assertion about the topic is called the A) Claim. B) Concession. C) Counter-argument. D) Rebuttal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Claim. ← 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