This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 92 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 92 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The dictionary or literal definition of a word A) Connotation. B) Rhetoric. C) Denotation. D) Subjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denotation. 2. Give me loyalty, or give me death. A) Repetition. B) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 3. The listener, viewer, or reader of a text. A) Audience. B) Context. C) Persona. D) Occasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Audience. 4. "67% of students prefer not to wear a uniform to school" is an example of (a) A) A Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Logos. 5. What is the effect of Seuss's repetition of the pronoun "you" ? (Select all that apply.) A) The reader feels like Seuss is speaking directly to him or her, giving advice. B) Emphasizes that each person is responsible for the decisions that he or she makes. C) The reader feels scolded, like he or she is in trouble. D) Emphasizes that each person should only think of him or her self. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reader feels like Seuss is speaking directly to him or her, giving advice. 6. "You have been the veterans of creative suffering." A) Hyperbole. B) Understatement. C) Parallelism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 7. Using an expert in a field as part of a persuasive argument A) Ethos. B) Testimonial. C) Expert testimony. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expert testimony. 8. Literal meaning of a word as defined by a dictionary. A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Didactic. D) Example. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 9. The claim must be A) An arguable statement. B) A complete sentence. C) Written from your persepctive. D) Clear to the audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An arguable statement. 10. This fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. A) Straw Man. B) Red Herring. C) Genetic Fallacy. D) False Causality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Straw Man. 11. What is this an example of:As her friends were helping her do her makeup, she said, "I feel like Frankenstein!" A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 12. What large scale societal problem does Swift plan to resolve? A) Overpopulation of Ireland. B) Spreading religion to Ireland. C) Mistreatment of Irish poor. D) Uplifting the English poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mistreatment of Irish poor. 13. There are 3 levels of rhetorical argumentation syllogism? (the answer is true) A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 14. When the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence A) Rhetorical question. B) Periodic sentence. C) Cumulative sentence. D) Logical appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periodic sentence. 15. What is an example of a biblical allusion? A) Plan ahead, it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. B) He was good at business but his Achilles heel was gambling. C) We were told to either reduce the staff or find new customers. D) Agnes was neither going to classes nor doing her assignments. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plan ahead, it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. 16. In the Rider/Elephant analogy, which represents conscious reasoning? A) The Rider. B) The Elephant. C) Both the Rider and the Elephant. D) Neither the Rider nor the Elephant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Rider. 17. What does the term 'pedantic' describe? A) Words or tone that is overly scholarly. B) Words or tone that is overly emotional. C) Words or tone that is overly simple. D) Words or tone that is overly dramatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words or tone that is overly scholarly. 18. What is the contrast to kairos in terms of time? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Chronos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chronos. 19. In this branch of rhetoric the speaker shows what is fair and true A) Epideictic rhetoric. B) Judicial rhetoric. C) Deliberative rhetoric. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Judicial rhetoric. 20. " ..... we can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality." A) Rhetorical question. B) Understatement. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. ← 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