This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 70 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 70 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A member of Congress explains that the proposed bill will cost 60% more to put into practice than its sponsor claims. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Weather. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 2. Which of the following is an appeal to an audience's sense of logic? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 3. This appeal relies on making the reader feel a certain way. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 4. Brings personal component to the subject, bias, and viewpoint A) Text. B) Message/purpose. C) Tier 1. D) Author/speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Author/speaker. 5. Irreverant A) Unloving. B) Undead. C) Very unpriestlike. D) Disrespectful to authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disrespectful to authority. 6. "Deep with the first dead lies London's daughter, /Robed in the long friends, /The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother, /Secret by the unmourning water/Of the riding Thames./After the first death, there is no other." A) Metonymy. B) Pathetic Fallacy. C) Elegy. D) Colloquialism. E) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elegy. 7. Anecdotes are brief narratives used to illustrate a point. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. Identify the rhetorical devices used in the following sentence: "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."-John F. Kennedy A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Hyperbole. D) Apposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 9. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?"We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as ..... A) Repetition. B) Antithesis. C) Rhetorical questioning. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical questioning. 10. What does "the faculty" mean, based on our notes? A) A group of people who teach somewhere. B) Having all of senses available. C) A teachable art. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A teachable art. 11. What is circular reasoning? A) An argument used to evade or divert attention from the topic discussed. B) It is an argument that suggests taking a minor action will lead to major and sometimes ludicrous consequences. C) Uses the conclusion to support the premise that supports the conclusion. D) When writers or speakers argue that something must be okay (correct, reasonable) because it is a common behavior or because most people do it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uses the conclusion to support the premise that supports the conclusion. 12. Information that proves a claim. A) Advice. B) Rebuttal. C) Support. D) Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Support. 13. What is the participle in the following sentence? Shivering, the couple ran out of the rain and into the house. A) Shivering. B) Couple. C) Into. D) House. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shivering. 14. Define Kairos A) The timeliness of an argument. B) Appeal to logic. C) Appeal to emotion. D) Appeal to credibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The timeliness of an argument. 15. Speaker pretends to hide what he/she exactly wants to say and enforce A) Reception. B) Designation. C) Periphrasis. D) Malapropism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reception. 16. Rhetoric about communications that are intended to accuse or defend someone. A) Judicial rhetoric. B) Epideictic rhetoric. C) Deliberative rhetoric. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Judicial rhetoric. 17. When discussing an author's diction, you should ..... A) Analyze the writer's sentence lengths as he/she should include a variety of sentences. B) Use an adjective to characterize the diction and identify patterns within the writer's word choices. C) Not specifically describe it to keep it open to interpretation. D) Also identify the tone created by the words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use an adjective to characterize the diction and identify patterns within the writer's word choices. 18. Opens with modifiers; withholds subject and verb until the end A) Basic. B) Cumulative. C) Loose. D) Periodic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Periodic. 19. What does the O stand for in SOAPSTone? A) Opinion. B) Other. C) Occasion. D) Outstanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occasion. 20. An ethical appeal to establish credibility and trust.Choose the rhetorical appeal that best fits the definition above. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. ← 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