This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 413 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 413 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is the use of emotions to influence the audience? A) Pathos. B) Deimos. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 2. Think about "Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage" by Carrie Chapman Catt to answer the question.Read the excerpt, then answer the question.Gentlemen, we hereby petition you, our only designated representatives, to redress our grievances by the immediate passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment and to use your influence to secure its ratification in our own state, in order that women of our nation may be endowed with political freedom before the next presidential election. "Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage" by Carrie Chapman CattUsing context clues, match each vocabulary word in the excerpt to its definition.redress A) Assigned. B) To address and set right. C) To request in writing. D) Provided with. E) Formal approval. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To address and set right. 3. The one who is writing or speaking A) Speaker. B) Context. C) Requirement. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 4. ..... is an appeal to authority or the credibility of a person and often uses celebrities/people of importance to persuade. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 5. ..... means:a noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it A) Parallelism. B) Anaphora. C) Appositive. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appositive. 6. Match the technique to the appropriate appeal:titles/position A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 7. The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of clauses to emphasize A) Anaphora. B) Ethos. C) Rhetorical appeals. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 8. "Private demand for this product has tapered off for the past three years, and this year's sales figures are at an all time low. It's time to research other options." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 9. Which of the following make up the rhetorical situation? Choose all that apply. A) Text, Media, Purpose, Reasoning. B) Audience, Culture/context, media, formatting. C) Message, Audience, Purpose, Culture/Context, and Writer. D) Culture/Context, formatting, writer, Text, Audience. E) Writer, Message, Audience, Medium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Message, Audience, Purpose, Culture/Context, and Writer. 10. Which rhetorical appeal uses logic, reasoning, facts, evidence, quotes, charts, statistics, numbers, etc. so that it is difficult to debate with? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 11. Which rhetorical device is the following an example of? "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" -Franklin Delano Roosevelt A) Logical Fallacy. B) Sweeping Generalizations. C) Hyperbole. D) Emotional Appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 12. In which city was rhetoric founded? A) Paris. B) Rome. C) Athens. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Athens. 13. Logos-using specific types of evidence to prove an argument. A) Logical Fallacy. B) Generalization. C) Induction. D) Logical Appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logical Appeal. 14. Why can't a nose be 12 inches long? Because, then it would be a foot! A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Pun. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 15. What are the Rhetorical tools? A) Logos, ethos, and mythos. B) Pathos, mythos, and kairos. C) Ethos, pathos, and logos. D) Mythos, ethos, and kairos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos, pathos, and logos. 16. What rhetorical device is used to help focus the reader on a specific idea by using the same word or phrase multiple times? A) Repeatition. B) Allusion. C) Parallelism. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeatition. 17. The meaning of the word "Rhetoric" is: A) The art of speaking well. B) The art of cursing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The art of speaking well. 18. Which rhetorical device is the following an example of? "We must protest until the school removes the vending machines. How much longer should we continue to feed our children junk food?" A) Sweeping Generalizations. B) Direct Address. C) Rhetorical Questions. D) Loaded Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Questions. 19. The use of figurative language or vivid descriptions to make pictures in the reader's mind A) Figurative language. B) Imagery. C) Variation in syntax. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 20. The selfish man, who owns five cars and two houses, has been unwilling to give any money to charity. A) NO CHANGE. B) Were. C) Have been. D) Has being. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NO CHANGE. ← 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