This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 39 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 39 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A stereotype in literature. A) Allegory. B) Archetype. C) Anachronism. D) Catharsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Archetype. 2. The following is an example of which rhetorical device? Sometimes paddling upstream is smoother than flowing with the current. A) Irony. B) Paradox. C) Hyperbole. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 3. Argumentative Terms:The writer's position on an issue A) Claim. B) Counterclaim. C) With rebuttal. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Claim. 4. Examples are A) Words or phrases that limit the claim. B) Well-known experts. C) Extended comparisons. D) Details that support the claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Details that support the claim. 5. Ideas and feelings associated with a word (not its dictionary definition) A) Connotation. B) Repetition. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 6. ..... is much more important in argumentative writing than it is in persuasive writing. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Legos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 7. A more agreeable/less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant concept A) Euphemism. B) Emotional appeal. C) Rhetoric. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 8. Short personal stories used to connect with the audience and add evidence or credibility to an argument. A) Alliteration. B) Evidence. C) Bias. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdote. 9. What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:"This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens ..... " A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Apposition. D) Unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apposition. 10. An indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar A) Oxymoron. B) Idiom. C) Allusion. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 11. "For man holds in his hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life" A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 12. Fortnite is the best video game. A) Fact. B) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opinion. 13. What is when facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work called? A) Verbal irony. B) Situational irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 14. Who is the audience of the speech? A) Black people only. B) Grieving Americans. C) White people only. D) Republicans . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grieving Americans. 15. "My backpack weighs a ton!" is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 16. A speaker's view of the situation or events of a story/speech A) Popular view. B) Perspective. C) Logical reasoning. D) Optical illusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perspective. 17. Which appeal is made to logic? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 18. Reasons you give to support your claim; includes facts, statistics, examples, personal anecdotes, expert opinions, etc. A) Argument. B) Claim. C) Supporting evidence. D) Counterclaim. E) Counterargument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Supporting evidence. 19. An extended comparison often used to aide in understanding. A) Analogy. B) Anecdote. C) Simile. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 20. Sarcasm is when a writer ..... A) Includes many conjunctions to slow down the pace of the reader. B) Makes a situation seem less important than it really is. C) Repeats the same grammatical structure in words, phrases, or clauses. D) Makes a mocking statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Makes a mocking statement. ← 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