This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 402 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 402 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What would "Don't act like a Romeo in front of her" be an example of? A) Allegory. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 2. Saying something in restrained terms in order to avoid being offensive A) Personification. B) Folding. C) Metonymy. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 3. When conveying your stance, you shouldn't be concerned with how it will be received by your audience. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. In order to be persuasive, you should use a variety of rhetorical devices in your persuasive essays. A) True. B) Talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. When faced with poverty, families resort to dangerous choices. A) Rhetorical explanation/rhetorical definition. B) Truth surrogate. C) Faulty analogy. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical explanation/rhetorical definition. 6. The repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds A) Alliteration. B) Ellipsis. C) Assonance. D) Coherence. E) Antecedent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 7. What is the definition of Kairos? A) Appeal to the credibility or trustworthiness of the speaker. B) Appeal to time or time-sensitive topics. C) Appeal to logic. D) Appeal to the emotions of the audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to time or time-sensitive topics. 8. The three main appeals are ethos, pathos, and ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Logic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 9. The scientists have done the experiment 57 times and the results are the same every single time. This best exemplifies: A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 10. What device places two or more contrasting ideas in close proximity to convey a point? A) Parallelism. B) Comparing. C) Juxtaposition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 11. ARMS is best for which time? A) Drafting. B) Revising. C) Editing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Revising. 12. A social principal so highly prized by an individual, group, or society that it becomes a goal to be pursued A) Affirmative. B) Criterion. C) Value. D) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Value. 13. Looking at a potential market to sell your product. This will allow your business to do better and make more profit. You might use focus groups, surveys, or interviews to get the information you need. A) Advertising. B) Buyer persona. C) Market research. D) Customer loyalty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Market research. 14. Name the rhetorical device: "We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers ..... in English, Hebrew, and Arabic." -George Bush, Address to the Nation on Terrorism A) Juxtaposition. B) Parallelism. C) Epistrophe. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 15. Arguments in which the speaker attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings ..... Example:If you want to keep your family safe, you need to buy this system ..... " A) Mentos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 16. Example:See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil. A) Alliteration. B) Epistrophe. C) Repetition. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 17. Figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses. A) Foreshadowing. B) Repeat. C) Anaphora. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 18. Repetition of consonants (not just initially) A) Author's purpose. B) Mood. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 19. A statement that says less than it means; often used for comedic effect. Example: "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." A) Verbal irony. B) Understatement. C) Juxtaposition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 20. "Four out of five dentists recommend Happy Glossy toothpaste. Therefore, it must be great." A) It does not follow. B) False causation. C) Red herring. D) Hasty generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hasty generalization. ← 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