This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 67 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 67 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which symbol represents logos? A) Heart. B) Hand. C) Head. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Head. 2. What does the Greek word "sophos" mean? A) Short. B) Sophomoric. C) Wisdom. D) Culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wisdom. 3. The art of using language to persuade someone A) Call to Action. B) Rhetoric. C) Loaded Language. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 4. In the rhetoric acronym S.O.A.P, the S refers to ..... A) Speaker. B) Simile. C) Singer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 5. This argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong. A) Straw man. B) Claim of fact. C) Claim of Value. D) Claim of policy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claim of Value. 6. A writer generally has two purposes in the persuasive text presented on the rhetorical analysis essay. These two purposes are A) The 1st has to do presenting the audience with background information on the topic and the 2nd has to do with persuading the audience to agree with him/her. B) The 1st has to do with informing and the 2nd has to do with a "call to action" as the writer presents something he wishes the audience to do or believe. C) The 1st has to do with persuading an audience, the 2nd has to do with informing them of the problem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 1st has to do with informing and the 2nd has to do with a "call to action" as the writer presents something he wishes the audience to do or believe. 7. Aristotle, a Greek Philosopher, was interested in the art of persuasion. He theorized we use persuasive language, expounding ethos, pathos, and logos. What is this framework called? A) Rhetorical Appeals. B) Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle. C) Rhetorical Techniques. D) Persuasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle. 8. "We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers." A) Parallelism. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 9. The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written A) Occasion. B) Rhetoric. C) Understatement. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occasion. 10. Which of the following is an example of chiasmus? A) "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." -John F. Kennedy. B) "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." -Yoda. C) "The covered themselves with dust and glory." -Mark Twain. D) "You held your breath and the door for me" -Alanis Morissette. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." -John F. Kennedy. 11. Conceit or sustained metaphor; an author's exploitation of a single metaphor or analogy at length throughout a poem or story. A) Metaphor. B) Extended metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extended metaphor. 12. Ethos is the appeal to A) Emotion. B) Logic. C) Credibility. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Credibility. 13. Refers to meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition. These are often positive or negative, and the often greatly affect the author's tone. A) Connotative Language. B) Denotative Language. C) It does not follow. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotative Language. 14. Remember:Rhetoric is the art of using ..... in an effective and persuasive way. A) Images. B) Language. C) Money. D) Pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language. 15. What is the definition of occasion in relation to rhetoric? A) The time and place of the speech. B) The audience's reaction to the speech. C) The speaker's emotions during the speech. D) The use of persuasive language in the speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The time and place of the speech. 16. Logos appeals apply to what? A) Apples/Bananas. B) Trustworthiness/Morals. C) Love/Affection. D) Facts/Data. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Facts/Data. 17. Uses ethos, logos, and pathos strategically to convince the audience to adopt a point of view. A) Persuasion. B) Propaganda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persuasion. 18. The goal for which element of Arrangement is defined as to make the audience "receptive, well-disposed, and attentive?" A) Introduction. B) Proof. C) Refutation. D) Division. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Introduction. 19. Latin for "urgency, " it is the event that is a work's reason for being. A) Persona. B) Weather. C) Ethos. D) Mythos. E) Requirement. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Requirement. 20. A form of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse that is used to convince, through pathos or logos. A) Limited omniscient. B) Persuasion. C) First Person Narrator. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persuasion. ← 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