This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 42 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 42 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite A) Style. B) Satire. C) Litotes. D) Loose Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Litotes. 2. How can the use of metaphor make a speech more memorable? A) By highlighting the speaker's command of language. B) By rephrasing earlier elements of a speech. C) By helping the audience to create a mental image. D) By forcing the audience to pay better attention. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By helping the audience to create a mental image. 3. The literal meaning is "opposite." A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. A) Alliteration. B) Antithesis. C) Ellipsis. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 4. To make a point a point by exaggerating is which of the following rhetorical devices? A) Concession. B) Conceit. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 5. Credibility A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 6. Identify the rhetorical device in the statement "This suitcase weighs a ton." A) Hyperbole. B) Understatement. C) Thesis. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. The writer involves the reader by relating the subject to their lives A) Audience involvement. B) Personal involvement. C) Alliteration. D) Expert opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Audience involvement. 8. "Our expertise in roofing contracting is evidenced not only by our 100 years in the business and our staff of qualified technicians, but in the decades of satisfied customers who have come to expect nothing but the best." Which appeal is this an example of? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 9. Rhetorical questions are..... A) Questions asked in a speech, specifically. B) Questions not expected to be answered. C) Questions asked in the introduction, usually in an anecdote. D) Questions you think to yourself silently. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Questions not expected to be answered. 10. What is adverb in the sentene below:The older couple walked briskly A) Walked. B) Briskly. C) Older. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Briskly. 11. Selling "Great American Chocolate Bars" around campus is an example of ..... A) Solicitation. B) Infamy. C) Ingenious. D) Torpor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solicitation. 12. A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 13. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury:we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery ..... We also have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut." A) Logos. B) Scare Tactics. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 14. What strategies might one use to appeal to an audience on a logical level? A) Humor, satire, and irony. B) Facts, data, and statistics. C) Allusion, rhetorical questions, and hyperbole. D) Adynaton, metaphor, and imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Facts, data, and statistics. 15. A horse is a horse, of course, of course. And no one can talk to a horse of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed A) Repetition. B) Metaphor. C) Extended Metaphor. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 16. A rhetorical question is ..... A) A question not meant to be answered. B) A question the audience is meant to answer. C) A question posed by an audience member. D) It isn't a question at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A question not meant to be answered. 17. The philosopher who first noted the elements of rhetoric A) Pluto. B) Moses. C) Aristotle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aristotle. 18. Pathos involves using ..... to persuade your audience. A) Logic. B) Evidence. C) Authority. D) Emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emotion. 19. What is Imperative Sentences? A) Saying the opposite of what is meant. B) Using a single feature to present the whole (often not distinguished from synecdoche). C) An implied comparison between two things seemingly quite different-metaphors make the abstract, concrete; the unfamiliar, familiar. D) Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat. 20. I won't mention how badly you did, but maybe you should prepare next time. A) Hypophora. B) Apophasis. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apophasis. ← 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