This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 419 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 419 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It seemed to me that a careful examination of the room and the lawn might possibly reveal some traces of this mysterious individual. You know my methods, Watson. Which term is being presented in the Sherlock Holmes example above? A) Diction. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 2. Incorrect assumption that one event caused another event A) Hasty generalization. B) Slippery slope. C) Faulty causality. D) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Faulty causality. 3. The final episode was bittersweet A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 4. A series of THREE parallel words, phrases, or clauses. It's a simple enough structure, yet potentially a powerful one. A) Anaphora. B) Repetition. C) Triangle. D) Tricolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tricolon. 5. What are brief stories used to illustrate a point? A) Analogies. B) Anecdotes. C) Allusions. D) Comparisons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anecdotes. 6. Repetitive sentence structure that adds intensity and builds rhythm A) Hyperbole. B) Paradox. C) Metaphor. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 7. Persuasion that appeals to logic A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Diction. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 8. Usain Bolt is faster than the speed of light.Is an example of a? A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 9. Argument based on the logical reasoning. A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Ethos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logos. 10. PART B:Why does Lincoln use that rhetorical device?All dreaded it-all sought to avert it ..... Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. A) The repeated words awaken the senses of the audience. B) The repeated words unify Americans as a single group. C) The repeated words emphasize that slavery is evil. D) The repeated words place blame on the South for their role in starting the war. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repeated words unify Americans as a single group. 11. Identify the rhetorical device being used in this passage. "We've also studied samples of blood and hair for people at the site that tested positive for sarin." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 12. Which of the following questions is most important to consider as you think about the needs of your audience? A) Does the genre require formal or informal language?. B) What does this writing task call on you to do?. C) How does the medium affect the way you write and organize your text?. D) What does your audience already know-or believe-about your topic?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What does your audience already know-or believe-about your topic?. 13. What is this an example of:The track athlete can run as fast as the wind during his sprints! A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 14. A question asked to make a point, and answer the question is given right after A) Rhetorical question. B) Hypophora. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypophora. 15. Read the following passage and identify the red portion of the passage. "To raise a happy, healthy, and hopeful child, it takes a family; it takes teachers; it takes clergy; it takes business people; it takes community leaders; it takes those who protect our health and safety. It takes all of us." Hillary Clinton A) Hyperbole. B) Anaphora. C) Imagery. D) Bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 16. Factual information and the absence of the author's opinion is called A) Subjective. B) Bias. C) Rhetoric. D) Objective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Objective. 17. Which of the following logical fallacies is shown in the following sentence: "People who don't support the proposed state minimum wage increase hate the poor." A) Post Hoc. B) Red Herring. C) Slippery Slope. D) Straw Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Straw Man. 18. The rhetorical parlor quote is credited to this man. A) Aristotle. B) Socrates. C) Kenneth Burke. D) Martin Luther King. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kenneth Burke. 19. In order to be considered credible by your reader it is helpful to use to which rhetorical appeal A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 20. Why might it be pathos when Lincoln in paragraph 6 of "The Emancipation Proclamation" calls on formerly enslaved people to abstain from violence and to instead keep working, just for pay now? A) He is trying to sooth the anxieties of Southern whites who feared that slaves would kill them if they were freed. B) He is relying on his authority as commander-in-chief of the military to enforce the peace. C) He is alluding to horribly violent events from history and the Bible to show how devastating violence can be. D) He is trying to appeal to Black people's emotions, making them feel sympathetic for the whites who just lost everything. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is trying to sooth the anxieties of Southern whites who feared that slaves would kill them if they were freed. ← 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