This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 400 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 400 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the most important logos trick, and why? A) Storytelling, because it entertains the audience. B) Concession, because it validates the other person's thoughts. C) Emotional manipulation, because it elicits strong reactions. D) Repetition, because it reinforces the message. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concession, because it validates the other person's thoughts. 2. Which is a counterexample of:If a four sided shape has two sides the same length, then it must be a rectangle. A) Quadrilateral. B) Rectangle. C) Square. D) Triangle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Square. 3. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence: "Speech is silver, but silence is gold." A) Apposition. B) Antithesis. C) Epistrophe. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 4. Trump's teachers said that we wasn't so good at math, but he was great at reading and making metaphors. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. Epideictic Rhetoric focuses on problems that occur in the present time A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 6. Figurative language, personal anecdote, 1st person, and strong connotations are used to help A) Pathos. B) Bathos. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 7. ..... audiences can include people with whom you're familiar as well as people you don't know personally, but whose expectations you do know. A) Unknown. B) Known. C) Multiple. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Known. 8. The purpose a crossword puzzle or comic strip in a newspaper is to ..... A) Entertain. B) Worship. C) Change someone's mind. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Entertain. 9. 97% of students say English is their favorite class. This is an example of: A) Emotive language. B) Metaphor. C) Evidence. D) Appeal to hip pocket. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evidence. 10. Who is known for his contributions to the study of rhetoric? A) Aristotle. B) Plato. C) Socrates. D) Leonardo da Vinci. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 11. The following is an example of which rhetorical appeal? "If we don't act now, people will continue to suffer. Can your conscience bear the weight of that guilt?" A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 12. Point out how two or more people, places, or things are alike OR how they differ A) Division and classification. B) Cause & effect. C) Compare & contrast. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compare & contrast. 13. Addressing a person in a speech or composition who is not present A) Allusion. B) Apostrophe. C) Consonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 14. What was the purpose of In Cold Blood? A) Persuade. B) Inform. C) Scare you. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inform. 15. The author acknowledges benefits of working as a teen as well as not working in paragaph 8? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Melissa shook her doubtful curls. A) Hypallage. B) Hyperbole. C) Hyperbaton. D) Twenty days. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypallage. 17. Recreate, invent, or visually present a person, place, event, or action so that the reader can picture what is being described A) Description. B) Definition. C) Exposition. D) Classification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Description. 18. What, according to Aristotle, is the definition of rhetoric? A) Questions that are so intelligent that they need no answer. B) Avoiding answering a question using another. C) The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. D) Being cool about everything. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. 19. The arrangement of ideas, incidents, evidence, or details in a perceptible order in a paragraph, essay, or speech. A) Parallelism. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Diction. D) Organization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organization. 20. Central idea or message in a work A) Theme. B) Symbol. C) Anecdote. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. ← 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