This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 45 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 45 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Serious talks, speeches, or lectures involving moral or spiritual advice A) Homily. B) Narrative. C) Diaries. D) Essays. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homily. 2. "They are loyal while they see 200, 000 sable soldiers, with glistening bayonets, walking in their midst." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Sensory Language. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory Language. 3. Transfer is a propaganda device that is used to: A) Show how to copy something onto something else. B) Make the audience associate the product with something else. C) Trick us into thinking that we are the only one with the product being advertised. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make the audience associate the product with something else. 4. A contrast between what is expected or intended and what actually occurs, often used for humor or to convey a message A) Satire. B) Syntax. C) Ethos. D) Irony tagsRhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony tagsRhetoric. 5. An appeal to logic or reason A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Weather. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logos. 6. Boom, badoom, boom, boom, badoom, boom, bass! Yeah that's that super bass! A) Antithesis. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 7. Melissa's curls shook, and Melissa's eyes flashed, and Melissa's back turned. A) Parallelism. B) Unexpected. C) Personality. D) Pleonasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 8. Ethos is an appeal based on A) Sympathy. B) Character. C) Logic. D) Emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sympathy. 9. The following example uses what rhetorical device? "Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not?" A) Antithesis. B) Allusion. C) Parallelism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 10. "Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends." A) Simile. B) Anaphora. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 11. The guy fell on the floor, he was laughing so hard. A) Complete Sentence. B) Run-on Sentence. C) Fragment. D) Comma Splice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comma Splice. 12. Which of the following appeals relates to logic such as data, facts, or statistics? A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Kronos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 13. Author refers to something well-known (from literature, culture, history, etc.) A) Parallelism. B) Prose. C) Symbolism. D) Analogy. E) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Allusion. 14. Who is Aristotle? A) A Greek scientist and philosopher that wrote the book on "Advertising". B) A Greek scientist and philosopher that wrote the book on "figurative language". C) A Greek scientist and philosopher that wrote the book on "Rhetoric". D) A Greek scientist and philosopher that wrote the book on "Figurative Language". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Greek scientist and philosopher that wrote the book on "Rhetoric". 15. Identify the appeal: "You'll make the right decision because you have something that not many people do:you have heart." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 16. The quality of being believable or trustworthy A) Credibility. B) Personification. C) Audience. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Credibility. 17. Your claim and thesis are essentially NOT the same things. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. "Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you ..... " is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 19. True of False:When referencing a speech, essay, or letter for my rhetorical analysis essay, it is alright to exclude direct quotes as long as I provide clear summaries. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. What device is being used here: "we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing" ? A) Enumeration. B) Anaphora. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enumeration. ← 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