This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "When I was five years old, my grandfather lost his life fighting the disease. He passed away quietly in the hospital, surrounded by family and friends ..... " Is an example of ..... A) Emotive Language. B) Assonance. C) An Antidote. D) An Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An Anecdote. 2. Rhetoric is ..... A) Expert testimony. B) The art of persuasion. C) Establishing facts and judgement about the past. D) A speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The art of persuasion. 3. Which passage from the text is the best example of an analogy? A) Like Fields and Bukalo, Bergstrom stresses the importance of sleep in forming the new memories needed to gain knowledge. B) Working with tissue from rat brains, the scientists electrically stimulated nerve axons. Carefully, they stimulated them just in the middle. C) Myelin is a bit like the plastic coating that jackets the copper wires in your home. D) Consider the prefrontal cortex. It's the region right behind your forehead. That's where you solve problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Myelin is a bit like the plastic coating that jackets the copper wires in your home. 4. The first stage of Bloom's Taxonomy asks you to do this. A) Analyze. B) Apply. C) Understand. D) Remember. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Remember. 5. According to Aristotle, what are the three persuasive appeals? A) Ethos, logos, and pathos. B) Forensic, epideictic, and deliberative rhetoric. C) Repetition, metaphors, and personification. D) Symbolism, allusions, and tricolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos, logos, and pathos. 6. Statistics and data used in writing are A) Not very reliable information. B) Complicated math problems. C) Facts and number related information. D) Any type of example. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Facts and number related information. 7. By appealing to an audience's sense of reason and logic, the speaker or writer intense to make the audience think clearly about the sensible and/or obvious answer to a problem A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 8. A brief, indirect reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictional) or to a work of literature or art A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Apathy. D) Anomaly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 9. You'd better take a taxi ....., you'll arrive late A) Otherwise. B) Consequently. C) Furthermore. D) Therefore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Otherwise. 10. The central argument of your paragraph (if you're writing one paragraph) or your essay (if you're writing an essay) A) Claim. B) Antithesis. C) Reasoning. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Claim. 11. What does APA stand for? A) American Philosophical Association. B) American People Association. C) American Principles association. D) American Psychological Association. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) American Psychological Association. 12. Definition of antithesis A) The exaggeration of something to give it emphasis or focus. B) The use of words that are opposites to highlight contrasting ideas. C) When the subject is not introduced until the end. D) Repetition of phrases at the end of multiple clauses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The use of words that are opposites to highlight contrasting ideas. 13. An argument in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises. A) Anaphora. B) Ad hominem. C) It does not follow. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It does not follow. 14. Rhetoric involves symbols rather than signs A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) Sluggishness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 15. A situation in which something happens, or fails to happen, that compels one to speak out. A) Rhetoric. B) Rhetorical Triangle. C) Rhetorical Situation. D) Rhetorical Appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Situation. 16. Trying to convince your audience to buy a medical product by showing a man or women wearing a white coat and a stethoscope is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 17. The repetition of the same vowel sounds in a series of words. A) Litotes. B) Aphorism. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 18. Analyze character traits, define complex ideas or events, discuss your understanding of a theme or concept. (a) A) Cause and Effect. B) Compare and Contrast. C) A Explain and Describe. D) Proposition and Support. E) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Explain and Describe. 19. A concise statement of principle or a precept given in concise words A) Allusion. B) Anecdote. C) Aphorism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aphorism. 20. What is the rhetorical triangle? A) The rhetorical triangle is a way of thinking about what's involved in any communication/persuasion scenario. B) The rhetorical triangle is a concept in geometry that describes the relationship between the three sides of a triangle. C) The rhetorical triangle is a concept in psychology that describes the three main components of personality:id, ego, and superego. D) The rhetorical triangle is a concept in music theory that describes the three main elements of a chord:root, third, and fifth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rhetorical triangle is a way of thinking about what's involved in any communication/persuasion scenario. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTheory QuizzesRhetoric Quiz 1Rhetoric Quiz 2Rhetoric Quiz 3Rhetoric Quiz 5Rhetoric Quiz 6Rhetoric Quiz 7Rhetoric Quiz 8Rhetoric Quiz 9Rhetoric Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books