This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 84 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 84 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The comic book superhero Spider-Man possesses a Spidey sense that warns him of trouble that's coming his way. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Luther picked up his pace on the trail as his Spidey sense began to tingle. A) Sense of smell. B) Sense of danger. C) Sense of wonder. D) Sense of pride. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sense of danger. 2. Excerpt A) An attitude of mind. B) A passage or quotation pulled from a certain text. C) To restate a text giving the meaning in a different way. D) Ordinary form of a spoken or written language, no structure, usually scene in poetry or prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A passage or quotation pulled from a certain text. 3. You have a million toys in your house. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 4. A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. A) Metaphor. B) Unconnected. C) Synecdoche. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 5. The act of convincing someone to adopt a particular belief, attitude, or action through reasoning, argumentation, or emotional appeal. A) Advocate. B) Anaphora. C) Persuasion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuasion. 6. An imaginary place or state where everything is unpleasant or bad, typically characterized by oppression and totalitarianism A) Authoritarianism. B) Dystopia. C) Oppression. D) Totalitarianism tags1984Real Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dystopia. 7. POSITIVE CONNOTATION:Her methods of solving problems are sometimes ..... A) Bizarre. B) Outrageous. C) Inane. D) Unusual. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unusual. 8. What does "credibility" mean? A) Evidence. B) Support. C) Truth. D) Believable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Believable. 9. Arrangement of words A) Diction. B) Requirement. C) Syntax. D) Your mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 10. Who talks about language as a "systematic structure of differences" ? A) Aristotle. B) Cicero. C) Saussure. D) Foucault. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saussure. 11. Judicial rhetoric that establishes facts and judgments about the past; similar to detectives at a crime scene. A) Forensic rhetoric (noun phrase). B) Epidictic rhetoric (noun phrase). C) Deliberative rhetoric (noun phrase). D) Ethics/ethics (noun). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forensic rhetoric (noun phrase). 12. When algorithms from our social media pull up articles that interest us, they are using our A) Voluntary response. B) Implicit bias. C) Confirmation bias. D) Implied bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Confirmation bias. 13. .....was the greatest orator of Ancient Greece, in the 4th century BC. His speeches are characterized by great literary and artistic value and provide a comprehensive insight into the historical, political and cultural events of that era. A) Cicerone. B) Mark Tullius Tiron. C) Demonstrate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demonstrate. 14. The appeal that builds credibility is called A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 15. Sprint is the network for all of your technology needs. It's the number one network and everyone uses its services. What are you waiting for? Join everyone else and get Sprint now! This is an example of what type of propaganda technique? A) Repetition. B) Bandwagon. C) Stereotyping. D) Testimonial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bandwagon. 16. Consider the rhetorical triangle. Purpose is related to: A) The speaker. B) The audience. C) The message. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 17. "They might dismiss us and say that we are too young to understand. But I understand pain. I get grief. I see it in the eyes of the families mourning for those they lost. I hear it in the wails of the loved ones who had to bury one of their own because grown men and women won't listen to common sense and do the bare minimum." What is the exigence? A) The pain and the grief that comes with doing the bare minimum. B) The death of many people who suddenly got sick because they are too young to understand the world. C) The Podcast that seeks to highlight a teenager's voice about the issue of the pandemic. D) The steadily intensifying spread of the virus due to more and more people refusing to follow safety protocols. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The steadily intensifying spread of the virus due to more and more people refusing to follow safety protocols. 18. Which rhetorical technique best supports the appeal, ethos? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Imagery. C) Anecdote. D) Expert Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expert Opinion. 19. "Our expertise in roofing contracting is evidence not only by our 100 years in the business and our staff of qualified technicians, but in the decades of satisfied customers who have come to expect nothing but the best." is ..... A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 20. The three rhetorical appeals outlined in the book Rhetoric are ..... A) Pathos, logs, and bathos. B) Dogma, reason, and theory. C) Ethos, chronos, and pathos. D) Ethos, logos, and pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethos, logos, and pathos. ← 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