This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 73 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 73 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Intentionally omitting extra conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) in a series of items. A) Multi-connectors. B) Unrelated. C) Hyperbole. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unrelated. 2. This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purpose of the major kinds of writing A) Rhetoric. B) Rhetoric. C) Rhetorical modes. D) Rhetorical situation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical modes. 3. The apples tasted so good, I ate a million of them for lunch. A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Irony. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 4. What is the definition of denotative? A) Using language effectively and persuasively in writing or speaking. B) Literal meaning of a word or phrase (the dictionary definition). C) Questions that do not require an answer. D) The emotions or feelings that a word or phrase creates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literal meaning of a word or phrase (the dictionary definition). 5. What do the three corners of the Rhetorical Triangle represent? A) Reason, Ethos, Passion. B) Speaker, Subject, Audience. C) Left, Right, Center. D) Occasion, Purpose, Subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker, Subject, Audience. 6. Fill in the blank:Epistrophe and anaphora have the same function:to ..... an idea A) Clarify. B) Emphasize. C) Stigmatize. D) Restrict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emphasize. 7. A figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, urgent, good, and so on, then it actually is, also called ..... A) Overstatement hyperbole. B) Understatement understatement. C) Overstatement understatement. D) Understatement hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement understatement. 8. Choose the best definition of public relations. A) The promotion of a product, service, or event. B) The effort to make the public like an advertiser. C) The management of the relationship between the public and a brand. D) The art of promotion an agenda, usually political in nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The management of the relationship between the public and a brand. 9. It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place. A) Anaphora. B) Metonymy. C) Personification. D) Synchysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 10. The appeal to credibility is known as ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 11. The process of scanning a line for rhythm A) Scansion. B) Scantron. C) Sonnet. D) None listed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scansion. 12. Intentional repetition of the same grammatical structure. A) Pun. B) Parallelism. C) Allusion. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 13. "We have the defensive advantage and will therefore fight more efficiently than we did in Dunkirk." A) Logos (Logic). B) Ethos (Authority). C) Pathos (Emotion). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos (Logic). 14. "The algorithms have been run in a thousand different ways, and the math continues to check out." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 15. The appeal to the audience's logic or reason A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 16. Not to be taken away A) Creed. B) Hallowed. C) Unalienable. D) Prosperity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unalienable. 17. Why is repetition such a useful tool in speech writing? A) It emphasizes an idea. B) It ensures that the listener doesn't become bored. C) It is extremely simple. D) It ensures that the listener understands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It emphasizes an idea. 18. "And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." A) Ethos. B) Ellipsis. C) Epistrophe. D) Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epistrophe. 19. The Greek philosopher that was an expert in rhetoric: A) Aristotle. B) Sophocles. C) Socrates. D) Zeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 20. Reading books each day is beneficial and all students should read for at least twenty minutes each day. Studies have shown that students who read this amount score in the 98th percentile on standardized tests. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. ← 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