This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 86 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 86 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience. A) Character. B) Modifier. C) Persona. D) Polemic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persona. 2. "I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers." ..... Langston Hughes A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 3. Something that a listener has to be careful of regarding logos is that A) Most speakers are not telling the truth. B) If a speaker does not say where she found the information, then it is false. C) Without pathos attached to it, people won't care about the information. D) Statistics can be deceptive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Statistics can be deceptive. 4. "Ideas worth spreading" . A) Chris Anderson's first words about TED. B) The slogan of TED. C) Definition of TED. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The slogan of TED. 5. When your friend asks you a yes or no question and you reply with "Is grass green?" is an example of ..... A) Tone. B) Extended Metaphor. C) Juxtaposition. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Question. 6. An intentional exaggeration A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 7. The characteristic of selecting facts, words, or emphasis to achieve a preconceived intent A) Allusion. B) Parody. C) Pacing. D) Slanting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slanting. 8. Think of how hard it would be for your family to live without you if you died in a car accident. Don't text and drive ..... think of those you love. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 9. What does the "O" in SOAPSTONE stand for? A) Occasion. B) Octagon. C) Opportunity. D) Optional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occasion. 10. The speaker compares one thing with another, by implying that one thing is another A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 11. "We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, ..... we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be!" is an example of ..... A) Evidence. B) Pronouns. C) Figurative Language. D) Adjectives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pronouns. 12. A usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical; a short account of an event A) Adulation. B) Abbreviate. C) Antidote. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdote. 13. In ethos, the writer or speaker presents himself or herself as A) Trustworthy. B) Untrustworthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trustworthy. 14. "Justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." A) Restatement. B) Repetition. C) Parallelism. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 15. Large companies (Tyson/Monsanto) declined interviews for the documentary. One farmer, Vince was willing to allow interviewers to enter his chicken house, but changed his mind after several visits from Tyson representatives. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Ethos and logos. E) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethos and logos. 16. Rhetoric has to be ethical. What is ethical? A) Right and moral. B) Based on feelings. C) Ancient Greece. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right and moral. 17. The sun smiled back at us as we sat on the beach on a warm summer day. A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 18. Repetition at the end of a line. Example: "See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil." A) Epistrophe. B) Anaphora. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epistrophe. 19. An expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements. A) Allusion. B) Archetype. C) Idiom. D) Meiosis. E) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 20. "Two girls fought today in the cafe. I ate a burger in lunch. So basically I was distracted all day and I could not complete the extra homework I was supposed to do." The speaker's ..... is that teenagers sometimes have a lot of distractions which prevent them from doing what they need to get done. A) Voice. B) Message. C) Audience. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Message. ← 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