This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 85 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 85 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How do you define author's purpose? A) Their particular mood while creating their composition. B) Their intent or reason for writing something. C) Their attitude towards a topic, often crafted through use of vocabulary and choice words. D) Their word count, and text features used throughout their work. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Their intent or reason for writing something. 2. This form of Rhetoric uses facts and data A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Repitition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 3. Addressing any and all available means of persuasion A) Persuasive Writing. B) Grammar. C) Rhetoric. D) Media. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 4. What kind of appeal is made in words of the Raisin Bran ad? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 5. Giving directions or explaining steps; focus on how it happens, not why A) Process analysis. B) Cause & effect. C) Division and classification. D) Illustration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Process analysis. 6. Which type of rhetoric deals with LOGIC and REASONING? A) PATHOS. B) ETHOS. C) PATIOS. D) LOGOS. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) LOGOS. 7. What is the purpose of using logos in argumentative writing? A) To establish credibility and authority. B) To evoke certain emotions in the audience. C) To use factual, researched evidence. D) To create and enhance meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To use factual, researched evidence. 8. Indignant A) Disrespectful. B) Sloppy and clumsy. C) Feeling anger because of something unjust. D) Disorderly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feeling anger because of something unjust. 9. Which term refers to what someone hopes to accomplish with rhetoric? A) Purpose. B) Motive. C) Requirement. D) Intelligence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purpose. 10. Which of the following is an appeal to an audience's sense of trustworthiness and credibility? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 11. A term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing; it is scholarly and academic. A) Multi-connector. B) Pedantic. C) Omniscient. D) Regionalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pedantic. 12. A sentence with two independent clauses. A) Complex sentence. B) Compound sentence. C) Fragment. D) Run-on sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compound sentence. 13. Each of those opera singers regularly ..... notes high enough to break glass and rupture eardrums. A) Hits. B) Hit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hits. 14. Omitting evidence that does not support your position. A) Slippery slope. B) Spatial ordering. C) Spotlight fallacy. D) Stacking the deck. E) Straw man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stacking the deck. 15. A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity A) Oxymoron. B) Antithesis. C) Paradox. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 16. "Comfort says, 'Tarry a while." ' A) Personification. B) Pathos. C) Irony. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 17. "I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of A) Restatement. B) Unrelated. C) Antithesis. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unrelated. 18. Attempts to persuade the reader by using a famous person to endorse a product or idea A) Tone. B) Testimonial. C) Requirement. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Testimonial. 19. "Busy old fool, unruly Sun ..... Saucy pedantic wretch." A) Metonymy. B) Pathetic Fallacy. C) Elegy. D) Colloquialism. E) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colloquialism. 20. What rhetorical appeal is being used by a writer who uses the authority of a person or organization in an attempt to get their audience to act or think a certain way? A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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