This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 427 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 427 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Writer/speaker gets emotion going, pulls on the heart strings, makes emotional connection to persuade (feel patriotic, scared, hopeful, nostalgic). A) Ready. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Erg. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 2. What is the definition of the logical fallacy, post hoc? A) A conclusion based on the thought that if something happens, it will cause a ripple of other effects. B) A conclusion based on insufficient or biased evidence. C) A conclusion that if something happened after an event, the event must have caused it. D) A conclusion that restates the argument rather than actually proving it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A conclusion that if something happened after an event, the event must have caused it. 3. What does pathos involve to persuade? A) Humility. B) Knowledge. C) Objectivity. D) Emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emotion. 4. "I always got to worry 'bout the paybackSome buck that I roughed up way backComin' back after all these years" -2Pac A) Satire. B) Imagery. C) Analogy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satire. 5. (Also called the "turning point" in thestory). The main conflict in the story is resolved andthe protagonist changes. (The reader will "see" a shiftor change in the main character). A) Rising action. B) Resolution. C) Inciting force. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax. 6. Pathos is the appeal that uses ..... A) Credibility. B) Logic. C) All three. D) Emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emotions. 7. Police respond five times faster with Safe House home security system than the other leading brands. A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 8. When embedding quotes, I want to remember to ..... A) ICK (introduce, context, knowledge). B) PIE (purpose, introduce, explain). C) ICE (introduce, cite, explain). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ICE (introduce, cite, explain). 9. Abracadabra!! A) Declarative. B) Exclamatory. C) Imperative. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exclamatory. 10. Who is the person receiving the message? A) Speaker. B) Audience. C) Message. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Audience. 11. The repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order; for example "I know what I like, and I like what I know." A) Antimetabole. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antimetabole. 12. A response to a counterargument in a debate or opinion essay. A) Argument. B) Claim. C) Rebuttal. D) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rebuttal. 13. I told you a million times ..... it's exaggeration A) Hyperbole. B) Inductive reasoning. C) Litotes. D) Meiosis. E) Missing the point. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 14. Sad dog commercials appeal to your ..... A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 15. Kids should be allowed to have candy in school. This statement is a A) Fact. B) Opinion. C) Generalization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opinion. 16. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Euphemism. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 17. When analyzing an advertisement, what items should we pay attention to? A) Color, Light, Repetition. B) Brushstrokes, Color, Medium. C) Character's Roles, Font, Mirrors & Windows. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character's Roles, Font, Mirrors & Windows. 18. Correctional facility A) Euphemism. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 19. "Our words seem small beside the loss you have endured." A) Oxymoron. B) Juxtaposition. C) Parallelism. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juxtaposition. 20. When the author writes to a person directly, they are using A) Direct Claim. B) Direct Address. C) Direct Summary. D) Direct Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct Address. ← 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