This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 43 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A(n) ..... sentence switches the placement of the verb before the subject of a sentence as if in a question. A) Compound. B) Complex. C) Inverted. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inverted. 2. What is the effect of isocolon? A) Sound. B) Emphasis. C) Attention. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 3. Appeals to audience's sense of moral judgment and ethics through credibility A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 4. Tone can be defined as A) The way a reader feels. B) Bias. C) The writer's attitude toward the subject. D) Contrary evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The writer's attitude toward the subject. 5. What does curmudgeon mean? A) Grumpy old man. B) Cleaning by water. C) Fear that something will happen. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grumpy old man. 6. Mrs. Stewart couldn't think of another question, but she really wanted there to be 20. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. When a writer bases a claim on an isolated example or asserts a claim is "certain" rather than possible. A) Invective. B) False analogy. C) Jargon. D) Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Generalization. 8. The righteous are a light that shines on the world A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. A question asked to make people thing a little deeper and not requiring an answer A) Call to Action. B) Rhetoric. C) Anecdote. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Question. 10. "Juice Box, now 100% all natural." A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 11. She dances like a chicken on hot coals. A) Sinedoche. B) Simile. C) Paradox. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 12. The right to vote A) Ineffectual. B) Logos. C) Suffrage. D) Enfranchised. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suffrage. 13. Also called a rebuttal, this part of an argument addresses the opposing view and proves it wrong or ineffective. A) Claim. B) Reason. C) Refutation. D) Counterclaim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refutation. 14. "I'm not afraid to die. I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes." A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 15. The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established party by the setting and party by the author's choice of objects that are described A) Tone. B) Aphorism. C) Denotation. D) Atmosphere. E) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atmosphere. 16. A statement in which opposite ideas are contrasted is an example of A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 17. The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing often including ethos, pathos, & logos. A) Rhetoric. B) Persuasive techniques. C) Fallacy. D) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric. 18. The reason why someone is speaking or writing; the goal the speaker wants to achieve. A) Purpose. B) Requirement. C) Appeals. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purpose. 19. Cake can cause cancer. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. Martin Luther King, Jr. used the phrase "Five score years ago ..... " in his "I Have a Dream" speech. This is a reference to President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which originally began with "Four score and seven years ago ..... " A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. ← 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