This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 91 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 91 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Highlights two opposing words/ideas within a single idea/sentence. A) Statistics. B) Parallelism. C) Simile. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 2. Why did Andrew Jackson wanted the land the natives occupied in the first place? A) To make himself popular. B) They could make money from that land by growing cotton and settlement. C) To get some trees. D) To know the way. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They could make money from that land by growing cotton and settlement. 3. "Beacon of light to a million Negro slaves" A) Imagery. B) Parallelism. C) Repetition. D) Restatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 4. In a piece of writing, who controls the MOOD? A) The reader. B) The author. C) Shrek. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reader. 5. Which of the following is a Rhetorical Appeals? A) Technique. B) Parallel Structure. C) Cobra. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 6. A famous person (athlete/celebrity) endorses a new product. A) Testimonial. B) Plain folks. C) Glittering generalities. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Testimonial. 7. "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 Which technique is used prominently in the above line of Hughes' poem? A) Parallelism. B) Allusion. C) Repetition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 8. The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells). The repetition can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, supply a musical sound, and/or echo the sense of the passage. A) Illiteration. B) Anaphora. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 9. The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. A) Concession. B) Persona. C) Polemic. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 10. The art of persuasive speaking or writing, often used to influence or inspire an audience A) Rhetoric. B) Logos. C) Satire. D) Irony tagsRhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric. 11. When it comes time to write a rhetorical analysis essay, the first thing to do is decide how you want to organize your essay. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Rhetoric that persuades using false beliefs or unsound reasoning A) Purpose. B) Manipulative. C) Perceptive. D) Deceptive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deceptive. 13. How does the rhetorical situation affect the reading or writing of a text? it can help you develop a more detailed understanding of others and their texts; helps readers and writers to determine why texts exist, what they aim to do, and how they do it in particular situations A) Dont click this one. B) After you understand, click this box. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After you understand, click this box. 14. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right ..... " A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Litotes. D) Apposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 15. ..... is the use of similar grammatical constructions such as, words, phrases, clauses, or sentences to express ideas that are related or equal in importance. A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Parallelism. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 16. An instruction to the audience to provoke an immediate response, usually using an imperative verb such as "call now", "find out more" or "visit a website today" . A) Charged words. B) Call to Action. C) Anticipate the Opposition . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Call to Action. 17. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach. A didactic work is usually formal and focuses on moral or ethical concerns. Didactic writing may be fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. A) Dissonance. B) Didactic. C) Connotation. D) Explication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Didactic. 18. Repeating words or phrases for emphasis when speaking or writing A) Rhetorical question. B) Sarcasm. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 19. I was so hungry I could eat a horse. A) Hyperbole. B) Not hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 20. A sound effect that is used in writing A) Narrative. B) Multi-connectors. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. ← 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