This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 386 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 386 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Isn't English the best class?" Is an example of what rhetorical device? A) The Truth. B) Post hoc ergo propter hoc. C) Hypophora. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 2. Gave up, as a penalty A) Fraudulent. B) Stead. C) Abrogated. D) Forfeited. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forfeited. 3. Audience and ethical appeals are in the same part of the rhetorical triangle A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 4. Anecdotes are ..... A) Definitions. B) Synonyms. C) Examples. D) Stories. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stories. 5. What is the definition of a red herring in an argument? A) An attempt to confuse and distract. B) A responsibility to refute a weak argument. C) The assumption that two things must be alike in another way. D) Talking in circles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An attempt to confuse and distract. 6. Which of the following is an appeal made to an audience's emotions? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 7. One way of creating ethos is A) Using analogies. B) Using facts/statistics. C) Demonstrating the author is fair/unbiased. D) Including anecdotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demonstrating the author is fair/unbiased. 8. The repetition of word or phrase at End of sentences or paragraphs. A) Apostrophe. B) Ethos. C) Alliterative Couplet. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epistrophe. 9. A person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure A) Allusion. B) Analysis. C) Pathos. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 10. Providing stories about love of a family pet, the joys of friendship, or the state of under-privileged children are examples that can add to your speech's ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Phonos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 11. The apartment was on the top floor-a small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath.Is an example of what? A) Chiasmus. B) Anaphora. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 12. Emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work A) Atmosphere. B) Tone. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atmosphere. 13. What is an appeal to ethos? A) Appealing to the speakers trustworthiness. B) Appealing to the readers logic. C) Appealing to the readers emotions. D) Appealing to the best evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appealing to the speakers trustworthiness. 14. A brief reference to a famous person or event-often from literature, history, Greek mythology, or the Bible. Can help to simplify complex ideas. Example: "He was a real Romeo with the ladies." A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 15. An implied or direct reference to a common piece of knowledge between speaker and audience A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Oxymoron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 16. Logos appeals to the audience's sense of logic, asking them to believe because: A) The argument makes sense with evidence. B) They don't have reasoning of their own. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The argument makes sense with evidence. 17. What must a rhetorical analyst (you the student) consistently do with a text? A) Search for use of rhetorical devices and strategies. B) Search for only the meaning of the text. C) Persuade the reader to think or do something. D) Ignore the text until it goes away. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Search for use of rhetorical devices and strategies. 18. According to Aristotle's division, PHYSICS is: A) Life science. B) Practical science. C) Poetic science. D) Theoretical science. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theoretical science. 19. Let the hate roll off your back like water from a spring rain. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 20. A person's account of an event, using someone, usually a celebrity to convince you of something A) Patriotism. B) Testimonial. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Testimonial. ← 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