This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 65 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 65 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Prose writing that is basedon facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history. A) Non-fiction. B) Fiction. C) Poetry. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Non-fiction. 2. Which term is being used in the following example:Okay Mother Teresa, tell me how you're going to change the world with your kindness. A) Allusion. B) Apostrophe. C) Alliteration. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 3. The teacher considered him a good student, steady if not inspired, willing if not eager, responsive to instruction and conscientious about his work. A) Periodic. B) Loose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loose. 4. Obedient behavior toward someone important in order to gain advantage A) Quackery. B) Demagogy. C) Sycophancy. D) Exhortation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sycophancy. 5. An original model on which something is patterned A) Assonance. B) Archetype. C) Ballad. D) Cliche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Archetype. 6. Bias is "prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair." What kind of writing would be most likely to show bias? A) Objective. B) Subjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subjective. 7. Choose the correct answer:an appeal based on logic or reason is called ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Thanos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 8. True or False:Descriptives don't help readers visualize an idea. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. What does this quote mean? "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." A) Reason should dominate our emotions. B) Emotions should be disregarded in decision-making. C) Reason should never be used in persuasion. D) Reason should serve and obey our emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reason should serve and obey our emotions. 10. What are the components of a claim? A) Topic (noun), position, and reasons. B) Topic (noun), action, (verb) and reasons. C) Topic (noun), counterclaim, and reasons. D) Counterclaim, rhetoric appeal, and reasons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Topic (noun), position, and reasons. 11. What is Anecdote? A) The repetition in successive words of the same initial consonant sound or of any vowel sound. B) Repetition of words in reverse order. C) A reference to a generally familiar person, place or thing, whether real or legendary. D) A short, interesting or amusing story about a particular person or event told to make a point. Forms a more human connection (pathos) between audience and speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A short, interesting or amusing story about a particular person or event told to make a point. Forms a more human connection (pathos) between audience and speaker. 12. True of False ( Allusion can be used to demonstrate ethos ) A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. An ad to sell Mac-n-Cheese which features a smiling mom cooking the dish is using A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 14. Choose the correct term for the following definition:The intention or desire to do harm or evil; ill will. A) Deprecate. B) Perpetuate. C) Engross. D) Malice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Malice. 15. The strict, literal definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color A) Connotation. B) Logos. C) Denotation. D) Colloquial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denotation. 16. What rhetorical device is used in: "We will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together" A) Simile. B) Parallelism. C) Hyperbole. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 17. [1] The main environmental problem caused by the production of Greek yogurt is the creation of acid whey as a by-product. [2] Because it requires up to four times more milk to make than conventional yogurt does, Greek yogurt produces larger amounts of acid whey, which is difficult to dispose of. [3] To address the problem of disposal, farmers have found a number of uses for acid whey. [4] They can add it to livestock feed as a protein2 supplement, and people can make their own Greek-style yogurt at home by straining regular yogurt. [5] If it is improperly introduced into the environment, acid-whey runoff 3 can pollute waterways, depleting the oxygen content of streams and rivers as it decomposes. To make this paragraph most logical, sentence 5 should be placed A) Where it is now. B) After sentence 1. C) After sentence 2. D) After sentence 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) After sentence 2. 18. An argument that is grammatically sound adds to: A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 19. What kind of figurative language is this:The night was a thick blanket around me A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. The withdrawal of a statement of opinion A) Strenuously. B) Pernicious. C) Recantation. D) Extricate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recantation. ← 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