This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 48 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 48 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison and contrast * A) Logos. B) Dilemma. C) Euphemism. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition. 2. What is the purpose of Loaded Words? A) Used to stir emotions of either anger or passion of the listener/reader. B) To signal expertise and knowledge and therefore establish credibility. C) To reinforce certain words and phrases, building emphasis with each one. D) Prompts thought and leads an audience to certain conclusions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Used to stir emotions of either anger or passion of the listener/reader. 3. Define Circumlocution A) List. B) An exaggeration or overstatement. C) That which comes before. D) To write around a subject; to write evasively in an effort to avoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To write around a subject; to write evasively in an effort to avoid. 4. A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 5. A compound sentence = A) Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses. B) Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. C) Is also called parallelism. D) Is also called a loose sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses. 6. A declarative sentence ends with A) A comma,. B) A period. C) A question mark?. D) An exclamation point!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A period. 7. "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit." (Star Trek:The Next Generation) A) Alliteration. B) Anaphora. C) Zeugma. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zeugma. 8. What device is best represented here? "All you are is mean. And a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life. And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean" A) Multi-connector. B) Unconnected. C) Anaphora. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multi-connector. 9. True or False:The word "anaphoura" is spelled correctly in this sentence. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. The use of exaggeration for emphasis or effect. A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 11. Rosie had the best time making her valentine cards for her classmates. She used red and white paper, heart stickers, markers and anything else she could find. It was great. Her friends are planning a valentine party on Feb. 14th at school. The one she made for her best friend is funny. Funny valentines are nice to get. A) To Inform. B) To Entertain. C) To Persuade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To Entertain. 12. ..... refers to any attempt to appeal to the intellect ..... academic arguments rely more on ..... A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 13. A rhetoric Ethical Appeal is also known as? A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 14. What is the purpose of a participle? A) Add detail to a noun. B) Add detail to a verb. C) Modify a verb. D) Describe a location. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Add detail to a noun. 15. Ancient Greece was a true democracy. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. Direct comparison between two things making them equal; something is something else A) Metaphor. B) Extended metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. Multiple syllables used in the sentence A) Polysyllabic. B) Monosyllabic. C) Syllogism. D) Polytheism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polysyllabic. 18. UNIVERSAL AUDIENCE A) Persuasive appeal from reputation, social position or personal character (your own or someone else's). B) Comparison, referring to one thing as another. C) An imaginary audience consisting of all humanity. D) Persuasive appeal from facts, logic or reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An imaginary audience consisting of all humanity. 19. Which rhetorical appeal aims to evoke emotions in the audience? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Bathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 20. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong A) Euphemism. B) Simile. C) Parallelism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. ← 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