This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 435 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 435 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the definition of the purpose? A) Why the author is writing or speaking?. B) What the author is talking about. C) Who is the audience. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Why the author is writing or speaking?. 2. What term describes a category of artistic composition, such as in music or literature, identified by a specific style, form, or content? A) Genre. B) Vocabulary. C) Phrase. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genre. 3. Because I am an English Teacher, you should take my writing advice. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 4. This race is going to be the death of me. A) Epistrophe. B) Parallelism. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. Black bugs bleed black blood. A) Syntax. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. A reference to another work of literature, person, or event is ..... A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 7. Purpose or Exigence?A store owner notices they aren't getting as much foot traffic as usual, so they create an ad for an upcoming sale. A) Requirement. B) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Requirement. 8. LeBron James is pictured with Nike gear on in a picture and a quote from LeBron is below the picture that says, "I love Nike apparel. It's always my first choice when I'm working out." This is what type of technique? A) Bandwagon. B) Testimonial. C) Snob Appeal. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Testimonial. 9. Which rhetorical device is used in this Bible verse?" When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me." A) Antithesis. B) Epistrophe. C) Allusion. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 10. Showing how two items are similar and/or different A) Problem/solution. B) Comparison/analogy. C) Description. D) Cause and/or effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comparison/analogy. 11. "The forest eats itself and lives forever." (Kingsolver) (a) A) A paradox. B) Metonymy. C) Alliteration. D) Synesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A paradox. 12. Why is ethos an effective persuasive strategy? A) It appeals to emotion. B) It appeals to logic. C) It establishes credibility. D) It uses moral reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It establishes credibility. 13. An appeal based on the character/reputation/credibility of the speaker A) Anecdote. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 14. Remember the Ladies:which word choice means the same as "stir up" ? A) Favorable. B) Foment. C) Abhor. D) Providence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foment. 15. What was a major interest of Aristotle? A) Mathematics. B) Science. C) Logic. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. An author demonstrates logos when they appeal to their own credibility. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. An appeal to logic:focuses on the subject matter of the appeal A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 18. "We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths ..... that all of us are created equal ..... is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth." (Inaugural Address, President Obama, 2008) A) Hyperbole. B) Folding. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 19. Establishing a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing (contrasting) them A) Antithesis. B) Aporia. C) Anaphora. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 20. Using several word near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device? A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← 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