This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 44 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An independent clause with no conjunction or dependent clause A) Simple sentence. B) Complex sentence. C) Compound sentence. D) Compound-complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple sentence. 2. Category of rhetoric that is mainly concerned with what happened in the past. A) Judicial. B) Demonstrative. C) Deliberative. D) Syntactic. E) Semantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Judicial. 3. "The data is perfectly clear:this investment has consistently turned a profit year-after-year, even in spite of market declines in other areas." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 4. This is an appeal to the emotions. A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 5. Rhetorical technique that gives objects human qualities.The sun smiled happily down on us.The clouds cried drops of rain. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. Point of view spoken from the reader's perspective (you/your) A) 1st. B) And. C) An offer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) And. 7. Which topoi best describes the following:Determining how to classify the idea, what its substance is, and to what degree it has that substance A) Definition. B) Compare and Contrast. C) Cause and Effect. D) Circumstance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Definition. 8. Spaceballs ( ..... of Star Wars) A) Point of view. B) Parody. C) Sarcasm. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parody. 9. Logical Fallacy:Because students do not do homework virtually when quarantined, we should get rid of all computers. A) Red Herring. B) Bandwagon. C) Slippery Slope. D) Circular Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Herring. 10. Obvious exaggeration for emphasis or effect A) Adage. B) Anaphora. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 11. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it A) Irony. B) Pedantic. C) Metonymy. D) Ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 12. The appeal to ethics and credibility is also called A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 13. Uses numbers and data to provide truth A) Metaphor. B) Parallelism. C) Anaphora. D) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Statistics. 14. Which is an example of downplaying? A) "Oh don't mind him, he's just another educator". B) "They are definitely built for this job.". C) "You deserve credit for all your hard-work" . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Oh don't mind him, he's just another educator". 15. Dance, dance, dance to the distortion A) Irony. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. Parallel structure:Like father, like son A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. In language arts, what does rhetoric mean? A) The art of effective or persuasive language. B) The study of human behavior. C) The art of painting and drawing. D) The study of ancient languages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The art of effective or persuasive language. 18. Which Rhetorical Device is shown in the following sentence: "If you don't adopt this puppy now, it will be put down tonight." A) Appeal to Ethos. B) Appeal to Logos. C) Appeal to Pathos. D) Appeal to Kairos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appeal to Pathos. 19. This appeal relies on research, facts, statistics, etc. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 20. After Will said that we should put more money into health and education, Warren responded by saying that he was surprised that Will hates our country so much that he wants to leave it defenseless by cutting military spending. A) To man. B) Red herring. C) Straw man. D) Sentimental appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Straw man. ← 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