This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 95 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 95 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The 'S' in SPACECAT is ..... A) Setting. B) Solution. C) Speaker. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 2. The philosopher identified the 3 persuasive strategies over ..... years ago. A) 500. B) 1000. C) 1500. D) 2000. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2000. 3. What is this an example of: "A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."-I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 4. If you add a little too much flour and the mixture seems too dry, feel free to add in a little more grease so it's smooth and stirrable. You want to find a good balance between the flour and the grease. A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 5. In terms of evidence, what is considered a sensible amount to use in a single paragraph A) One solid piece of evidence. B) Two pieces of evidence. C) Three pieces of evidence. D) Every line should have a quotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three pieces of evidence. 6. Beginning with a generalization or premise and proceeding to examples and supporting facts to make a case A) Deductive argument. B) Inductive argument. C) Rhetorical appeals. D) Logical appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deductive argument. 7. Choose the correct term for the following definition:To hold the complete interest or attention of (someone). A) Deprecate. B) Perpetuate. C) Engross. D) Malice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Engross. 8. It is illegal to keep a hedgehog as a pet in the state of California. A) That statement is objective. B) That statement is subjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That statement is objective. 9. The act of combining perfectly cited sources with copied passages-without citation-in one paper. A) 404 error. B) Hybrid. C) Mashup. D) Re-tweet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hybrid. 10. My non-profit organization started with just one volunteer-me. I'd walk up and down the beaches collecting trash. Then, a friend joined me. The following week, that friend brought a friend. And then another. Until it grew to what it is today-an organization with more than 300 volunteers who have helped remove more than 15, 000 pounds (6.8 tons) of trash from the beaches and the oceans. So, I know quite a bit on getting people together for a good cause.Which appeal is being used? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 11. What is an example of METONYMY A) People part like the Red Sea when he walks in. B) The pen is mightier than the sword. C) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The pen is mightier than the sword. 12. The atmosphere of feeling created by a literary work. A) Comic Relief. B) Mood. C) Empathy. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 13. Correctional facility instead of jail A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Allusion. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 14. What does a pronoun replace? A) Verb. B) Noun. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noun. 15. "Daisy, Daisy, Daisy" she stated with anger.The above is an example of: A) Repetition. B) Logos. C) Restatement. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 16. This rhetorical appeal requires a credible authority to convince the audience. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 17. Substitute of one word for another which it suggests. A) Metaphor. B) Litotes. C) Metonymy. D) Synesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 18. This is the audience for an Nike commercial featuring a mom running around getting her kids to school A) Middle-aged mom. B) Elementary school aged children. C) Teenagers. D) Adult men. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Middle-aged mom. 19. "Many scientists argue that like Icarus (from the Greek myth "Icarus and Daedalus") science ignores the ever-nearing sun at its own peril." is an example of A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 20. The tools of rhetoric: A) Ethos, logos, purpose. B) Speaker, audience, purpose. C) Ethos, logos, pathos. D) Context, purpose, subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos, logos, pathos. ← 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