This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 83 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 83 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which words signal a generalization? A) Is, am, are, was, were. B) All, most, usually, never. C) Alike, different, same, difference. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All, most, usually, never. 2. A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other A) Antithesis. B) Antimetabole. C) Unconnected. D) Multi-connector. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 3. What is the beginning of the story called? A) Exposition. B) Falling Action. C) Climax. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 4. A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. A) Rhetorical Triangle. B) SOAPS. C) Floodgates. D) SOAPSTone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Triangle. 5. Why is it important to include logical reasoning (logos) in persuasive speeches? A) Logical reasoning (logos) can confuse the audience and make the speech less persuasive. B) Logical reasoning (logos) helps provide evidence, facts, and logical arguments to support the speaker's claims and persuade the audience. C) Including logical reasoning (logos) is only important in academic speeches, not persuasive speeches. D) Including logical reasoning (logos) is not important in persuasive speeches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logical reasoning (logos) helps provide evidence, facts, and logical arguments to support the speaker's claims and persuade the audience. 6. "Are you looking to buy your dream house? Come down to Ray's." is an example of ..... A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Mood. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Question. 7. How did this idiot get elected? A) Analogy. B) Rhetorical question. C) Epistrophe. D) Multi-connectors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 8. What is the following an example of:And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; A) Rhetorical Question. B) Irony. C) Repetition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 9. Simile is a comparison using like or as A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne ..... " A) Antithesis. B) Parallelism. C) Simile. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 11. Errors or manipulation of rhetoric or logical thinking A) Rhetorical fallacy. B) Rhetorical device. C) Rhetorical question. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical fallacy. 12. What is the specific purpose of imagery? A) To add more detail. B) To sound sophisticated. C) To use imagination. D) To create an image in the reader's mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To create an image in the reader's mind. 13. "Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword." (Obama) A) Epiphora. B) Paradox. C) Parallel structure. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallel structure. 14. Which sentence has no errors in its parallel structure? A) Barking dogs, kittens that were meowing, and squawking parakeets greet the pet shop visitors. B) Barking dogs, meowing kittens, and squawking parakeets greet the pet shop visitors. C) Dogs that bark, kittens that meow, and parakeets squawking greet the pet shop visitors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Barking dogs, meowing kittens, and squawking parakeets greet the pet shop visitors. 15. Deceitful; dishonest A) Fraudulent. B) Forfeited. C) Subsequently. D) Confiscation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fraudulent. 16. What does the second "S" in SOAPSTONE stand for? A) Student. B) Subject. C) Situation. D) Slope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject. 17. Deliberately arousing fear about a particular issue with little to no evidence. A) Bandwagon Technique. B) Card Stacking. C) Slippery Slope. D) Fear Mongering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fear Mongering. 18. Pieces of information that can be proven correct by testing or consulting reliable sources A) Facts. B) Statistics. C) Examples. D) Anecdotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Facts. 19. Which of the following is an example of malapropism? A) "I'm fading into Bolivian." -Mike Tyson. B) "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty." -John F. Kennedy. C) "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." -Yoda. D) "I desire to see in this country the decent men strong and the strong men decent." -Theodore Roosevelt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "I'm fading into Bolivian." -Mike Tyson. 20. The principle of coherent writing requiring that coordinating elements be given the same grammatical form. (ie. " I was born American;I will live an American; I will die an American") A) Parallelism. B) Diction. C) Rhetorical mode. D) Coherence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. ← 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