This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 87 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 87 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The person or organization delivering the content in a piece of media is ..... A) The point of view. B) The audience. C) The speaker. D) The message. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The speaker. 2. A adjective used to describe a tone that has the primary purpose of teaching or instructing A) Declarative Sentence. B) Unconnected. C) Didactic. D) Ellipsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Didactic. 3. Political activity that seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument A) Quackery. B) Demagogy. C) Sycophancy. D) Exhortation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demagogy. 4. Why did Martin Luther King Jr. choose to repeat the phrase "I have a dream" ? A) To emphasis hope. B) To make his listeners think more about the future. C) To make his listeners think carefully about his words. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 5. If an author/speaker is using facts or statistics to the audience's sense of reasoning/logic, they are using A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 6. Secondary Audience A) Broader person or group that has some connection to target audience. B) The people, location, and time that influence a text. C) The broadest and largest group that has no connection to the intended audience. D) The target or intended audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Broader person or group that has some connection to target audience. 7. Define:Rhetorically A) A good speaker. B) An element of Rhetoric. C) Done according to the rules of Rhetoric. D) Rihanna's new single. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Done according to the rules of Rhetoric. 8. A little boy suggesting that school doesn't help kids learn is an example of what? A) Appeal to false authority. B) Warrant. C) Occasion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to false authority. 9. This is the weakest rhetorical appeal unless used with another appeal. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) All three. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 10. Support for an argument that is based on recognized experts in the field A) To man. B) To the people. C) Appeal to authority. D) Authority. E) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Authority. 11. Rhetorical Device questions ask you about why a specific phrase or statement is made and how it was used as rhetoric. A) False, that is Function. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 12. Parliamentary speeches are with party motives, because the speech refers to the entire "national being", i.e. on the whole nation, the whole country. A) Exactly. B) Incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorrect. 13. Stark contrast between two people or things used to create deliberate differences A) Rhetorical question. B) Sarcasm. C) Juxtaposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 14. Appealing to logic and concrete facts A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 15. The Rhetorical Appeal which inspires trust and credibility in the speaker is called: A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 16. Lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, and words, A) Anastrophe. B) Unrelated. C) Multi-connectors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unrelated. 17. A short story told to illustrate a point (great for ethos or pathos, not so much for logos): A) Euphemism. B) Anecdote. C) Slippery Slope. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anecdote. 18. All vegans are against animal enslavement, including keeping animals as pets. A) Straw man. B) Truth surrogate. C) Hinting. D) Rhetorical definition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Straw man. 19. Justin Bieber advertising for ProActiv A) Testimonial. B) Plain Folk. C) Explicit. D) Vernacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Testimonial. 20. "He has a track record of success with this company, culminating in some of our most acclaimed architecture to date and earning us Firm of the Year nine times in a row." A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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