This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 389 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 389 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Logical Fallacies:40 million people can't be wrong! Buy the new iPhone XIV today! A) Bandwagon. B) False dilemma. C) Incorrect premise. D) Straw man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bandwagon. 2. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury:we have not only the fingerprints, but the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an also 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." A) Ethos. B) Weather. C) Pathos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logos. 3. Pathos is an appeal to the audience's A) Respect and trust. B) Emotion. C) Logical mind. D) Reasonable heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotion. 4. Ethos appeals to the audience by asking them to: A) Trust the speaker. B) Disagree with the speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trust the speaker. 5. The call to ethics is also called A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 6. Identify the appeal: "If my years as a Marine taught me anything, it's that caution is the best policy in this sort of situation." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 7. Define explicit. A) Confusing and convoluted. B) Implicit and inferred; full of doubt. C) Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion and doubt. D) Vague and ambiguous; confusing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion and doubt. 8. Appeal to ..... encourages the audience to trust the speaker's credibility. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 9. Misleading A) Conviction. B) Invention. C) Deceptive. D) Delivery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deceptive. 10. Which appeal evokes an emotional, but sometimes irrational response? A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Intentions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 11. To understand rhetoric in a photograph you need to look for elements that have been ..... *added*suppressed*substituted ..... A) Exchanged. B) Altered. C) Changed. D) Replaced. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exchanged. 12. Which fallacy is used to present two options as the only two options? A) Red herring. B) False authority. C) Either or. D) Slippery slope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Either or. 13. Imagine Grace, Priya, and Elijah are having a debate. According to Aristotle, what skill is Elijah using when he observes the available means of persuasion? A) He is studying effective communication. B) He is using his personal experience and education. C) He is practicing rhetoric. D) He is using the faculty of logical reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is practicing rhetoric. 14. Which is not an allsuion A) I'll be your romeo if you'll be my juliet. B) My brother looks like g.i. joe in that uniform. C) Your dad is really smart. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Your dad is really smart. 15. T/F:The following sentence is an example of Parallel Structure. Mrs. Workman likes to teach, to run, and playing with her dogs. A) TRUE-this is an example of Parallel Structure. B) FALSE-this is NOT an example of Parallel Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE-this is NOT an example of Parallel Structure. 16. Opposition or contrast of ideas A) Antithesis. B) Apostrophe. C) Unrelated. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 17. What does the word "ALLUSION" mean? A) Hinting at events that will happen later in the story. B) Citing evidence word-for-word, with quotation marks and page numbers. C) Reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or idea of significance. D) Clearly stating the meaning of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or idea of significance. 18. WHen an author uses repetition, it is intended to create an emotional response in the reader. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. Dependent clause followed by an independent clause. A) Periodic sentence. B) Loose sentence. C) Predicative nominative. D) Predicate adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Periodic sentence. 20. Non-periodic sentence; independent clause comes first followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses; this type of writing is more conversational, informal, relaxed, etc. A) Loose sentence. B) Periodic sentence. C) Exclamatory sentence. D) Imperative sentence. 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