This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 66 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 66 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Separating by a class of things or placing ideas into categories following a clear principle or basis A) Division and classification. B) Description. C) Process analysis. D) Definition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Division and classification. 2. Describes the variety, the conventions, and purposes of major kinds of writing A) Prose. B) Rhetoric. C) Parody. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 3. When something seems to bethe opposite of what youexpect, it can be a bitconfusing.We spend the time we don't have.The teacher has a right to mark theanswer wrong. A) Logos. B) Allusion. C) Paradox. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 4. Definition:Folding A) The repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence. B) An ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence. 5. Which type of rhetorical appeal is used in the following sentence: "History has shown time and again that absolute power corrupts absolutely." A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 6. What is a slippery slope? A) When writers or speakers argue that something must be okay (correct, reasonable) because it is a common behavior or because most people do it. B) An argument used to evade or divert attention from the topic discussed. C) It is an argument that suggests taking a minor action will lead to major and sometimes ludicrous consequences. D) Uses the conclusion to support the premise that supports the conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is an argument that suggests taking a minor action will lead to major and sometimes ludicrous consequences. 7. What was the purpose for the "Declaration of Sentiments" ? A) Women wanted to point out the unfairness of their treatment by men, using their own words against them. B) The women wanted men to see all of their flaws. C) Women were tired of not being allowed to vote. D) The women wanted the founding fathers to re-write the Declaration of Independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Women wanted to point out the unfairness of their treatment by men, using their own words against them. 8. "I don't want to live on in my work. I want to live on in my apartment." //"No quiero seguir viviendo en mi trabajo. Quiero vivir en mi apartamento" . A) Parallelism. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 9. Appealing to your audience using emotions (vivid language and anecdotes) A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Was taken. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 10. The best example of alliteration is ..... A) I wanted to ask Alice if I could acquire a bite from her apple. As she ate, she kept asking about my astrology sign. I am an Aquarius, and apparently I am about to embark on an epic adventure. B) We can never be satisfied as long as [Black People are] the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We can never be satisfied . C) That a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. D) One fish, two fish, three fish, blue fish . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I wanted to ask Alice if I could acquire a bite from her apple. As she ate, she kept asking about my astrology sign. I am an Aquarius, and apparently I am about to embark on an epic adventure. 11. The perspective from which a story is told (1st person or 3rd person are the most common) A) Point of view. B) Rhetorical modes. C) Figure of speech. D) Persona. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point of view. 12. The name of the Greek philosopher that was an expert at rhetoric: A) Aristotle. B) Socrates. C) Sophocles. D) Zeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 13. The argument (or one of the arguments) opposing your thesis statement. The opposite of a claim. A) Expert Opinion. B) Refuting a Claim. C) Counterclaim. D) Concession. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Counterclaim. 14. What is the definition of purpose in relation to rhetoric? A) The reason or intent behind a speech or text. B) The use of language to persuade or influence. C) The structure and organization of a speech or text. D) The emotional appeal used in a speech or text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reason or intent behind a speech or text. 15. Even in his last years, grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut. A) Simile. B) Metaphhor. C) Allusion. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. "And some of you have come from areas where you quest ..... quest for freedom left you battered by the storms ..... " A) Unrelated. B) Euphemism. C) Antithesis. D) Silence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Silence. 17. "Her smile is a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day."What rhetorical devise is used? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 18. Device? "A cup of good strong coffee would not be unwelcome right now." A) Parallelism. B) Litotes. C) Antithesis. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Litotes. 19. What are rhetorical devices? A) Words used in poetry. B) Words writers and speakers use that can explain, persuade, unify ideas, or emphasize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words writers and speakers use that can explain, persuade, unify ideas, or emphasize. 20. Which is NOT an element of rhetoric? A) Speaker. B) Audience. C) Context. D) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Propaganda. ← 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