This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 62 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 62 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which appeal is text focused? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 2. The opposite of the author's claim or the opposing argument is called the ..... A) Credible source. B) Support evidence. C) Claim. D) Counterclaim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Counterclaim. 3. "Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?" A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 4. The following is an example of what kind of literary device? "The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood on the little rise across the creek-now that, too, was gone ..... " A) Hyperbole. B) Epistrophe. C) Apostrophe. D) Anastrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 5. Plato was the teacher of Socrates. A) Exactly. B) Incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorrect. 6. What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:"For no government is better than the men who compose it, and I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best." A) Aniphora. B) Antithesis. C) Ethos. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epistrophe. 7. Considered the leading humor theory of the day A) Superiority. B) Relief. C) Incongruity. D) Benign-violation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benign-violation. 8. Which of the following is NOT one of the three components of the rhetorical triangle? A) Author. B) Context. C) Audience. D) Message. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Context. 9. Any media that tries to make you happy, scared, sad, etc. as a way to persuade you is using ..... A) Weather. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 10. Which of the following is not a way to establish ethos? A) Look at me-focus on your credentials, authority, etc. B) Look around me-allude to your friends, people who agree with you, etc. C) Look at yourself-to ask the audience to focus on their own emotions, fears, etc. D) Look at us-identify with your audience, often through jargon, anecdotes, and colloquialisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Look at yourself-to ask the audience to focus on their own emotions, fears, etc. 11. When contradictory terms are grouped together A) Oxymoron. B) Jargon. C) Understatement. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 12. Which one of the three Aristotelian appeals most concerns the audience? A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Kratos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 13. Which trope or scheme is used in the following sentence: "O holy night! The stars are brightly shining!" A) Anaphora. B) Anastrophe. C) Apostrophe. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 14. What is the meaning of allusion? A) An allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. B) An allusion is a form of irony in which you implicitly mention the meaning of the thought or phrase. C) An allusion is a type of hyperbole that will explicitly mention the meaning of the passage or literary work. D) An allusion is a type of metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. 15. The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. A) Exposition. B) Narrative. C) Description. D) Argumentative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 16. The main purpose of slave narratives was to ..... A) To tell people about the terrible conditions of slavery. B) To entertain readers with a story. C) To persuade people to buy more slaves. D) Persuade people to help abolish slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Persuade people to help abolish slavery. 17. Rhetorical Devices A) The art of using language persuasively. B) Techniques writers use to enhance their arguments and communicate effectively. C) The senses used in sensory language. D) Comparisons of something not alive to being human. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Techniques writers use to enhance their arguments and communicate effectively. 18. A short, entertaining story A) Anecdote. B) Analogy. C) Allusion. D) Parable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anecdote. 19. WHAT IS THIS CLASS CALLED? A) MEDIA LITERACY. B) MEDIA ORIENTATION. C) MEDIA EDUCATION. D) MULTI MEDIA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) MEDIA LITERACY. 20. QUOTE A) Any piece of writing, not just a textbook. B) "Style.". C) Convincing an audience to agree with your standpoint. D) Using someone else's words in your own text to support what you have written. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Using someone else's words in your own text to support what you have written. ← 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