This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 40 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage A) Prose. B) Ambiguity. C) Style. D) Theme. E) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ambiguity. 2. Her curls Melissa shook. A) Hypallage. B) Hyperbole. C) Hyperbaton. D) Twenty days. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbaton. 3. Spaces include both the form of writing as well as the physical/virtual space we write in. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. A writer's "rhetorical choices" can include ..... OR ..... A) Speech or letter. B) Inform or persuade. C) Strategies or devices. D) Persuasive appeals or rhetorical situation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strategies or devices. 5. Which component of rhetoric appeals to emotions and feelings? A) Pathos. B) Weather. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 6. What is the definition of connotative? A) Using language effectively and persuasively in writing or speaking. B) Literal meaning of a word or phrase (the dictionary definition). C) Questions that do not require an answer. D) The emotions or feelings that a word or phrase creates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The emotions or feelings that a word or phrase creates. 7. What do you call the different ways you can spread a message? A) Media. B) Aristotle. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Media. 8. Words or statements that are fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated A) Explicit. B) Implicit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Explicit. 9. Repetition at the end of successive clauses A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Trope. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 10. The following is an example of, " "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation" A) Analogy. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 11. Why does Skloot repeatedly mention personal details like red toenail polish and family history? A) To remind the reader that Henrietta was a real person. B) To explain how her grooming habits affected her health. C) To include something other than the scientific aspects of the story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To remind the reader that Henrietta was a real person. 12. A purpose that wants the reader to simply know more about a subject A) To persuade. B) To inform. C) To entertain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To inform. 13. Determine the mode of rhetoric:"Don't you want to help save our planet?" A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 14. Get Colgate for brighter teeth. Colgate is the best toothpaste for your teeth. Colgate gives you a brighter smile. Choose Colgate today! What type of technique is used? A) Testimonial. B) Snob Appeal. C) Bandwagon. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 15. This is the person or group who creates a text. A) Speaker. B) Subject. C) Audience. D) Rhetorical appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 16. The data is perfectly clear:this investment has consistently turned a profit year-over year, even in spite of market declines in other areas. A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 17. Calling something to mind without mentioning it directly A) Anecdote. B) Allusion. C) Tone. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 18. An appeal that evokes a feeling-based response in the audience. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 19. Addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail. A) Amplification. B) Enumeratio. C) Imagery. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amplification. 20. Persuading by relying on the character of the author A) Ethical appeal. B) Emotional appeal. C) Logical appeal. D) Deduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethical appeal. ← 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