This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Theory > Rhetoric > Rhetoric – Quiz 97 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetoric Quiz 97 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The weather forecast had predicted thunderstorms, but the dark thunderclouds never materialised. A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) Compound-Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compound. 2. The repetition of vowel sounds at close intervals A) Assonance. B) Allegory. C) Archetype. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 3. I feel like throwing something! I was typing my paper and was almost finished. Then the power went out. Now my paper is lost. This is a horrible night. The tone is A) Serious. B) Excited. C) Angry. D) Scary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Angry. 4. He was brave. He was bold. He was selfless. A) Polysyndeton and epistrophe. B) Analogy and parallelism. C) Anaphora and parallelism. D) Epistrophe and anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora and parallelism. 5. More people own Playstation 2 than any other gaming console. A) Fact. B) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fact. 6. This part of a speech acknowledges the other side and explains why it is wrong. A) Refute. B) Confirmation. C) Concession. D) Narration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refute. 7. What is it called in a rhetorical situation when you acknowledge your opponent's argument, and refute it before they can speak A) Counter argument. B) Counter point. C) Rude. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Counter argument. 8. Which figurative language is the following an example of? Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 9. Identify the type of figurative language being used:She tossed and turned all night and could not fall asleep. The best in the guest room was as soft as concrete. She wished she was at home and tucked in her own bed. A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Parallelism. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 10. "His terrible whiskers flitted round me in silent criticism." A) Irony. B) Metonymy. C) Synecdoche. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 11. The comparison of two or more unlike things.-equates A) REPETITION. B) METAPHOR. C) DICTION. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) METAPHOR. 12. From the Greek for "reckoning together"; deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion A) Syllogism. B) Logos. C) Motif. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syllogism. 13. The part of an argument that state's the author's point of view is called the A) Claim. B) Counterclaim. C) Opinion. D) Objective viewpoint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Claim. 14. Why does Granholm use a slow and steady pace in her speech "Remembering Rosa parks" ? A) To let the audience know that her speech will be exciting. B) To allow the audience time to get used to her speaking patterns. C) To give audience time to get connect with the meaning of her words. D) To provide the audience information that she considers important. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To give audience time to get connect with the meaning of her words. 15. "Breakfast of champions" A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Direct address. D) Folding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 16. Which logical fault is this:The rescue workers, doctors and various assistants are all heroes because, with the help of God, they managed to save all of the people involved in that accident. A) Ad hominem. B) Conspiracy theory. C) Exaggeration. D) False certainty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exaggeration. 17. The propagandist puts forth the idea that everyone is doing this, or everyone supports this person/cause, so should you. A) Testimonial. B) Bandwagon. C) Name Calling. D) Snob Appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bandwagon. 18. "Statistically speaking, the probability of success in this investment is bolstered by a consistent track record of steady annual growth in the industry over the past decade." Which rhetoric is used? A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 19. Question that is asked to make a point, rather than to get an answer. A) Antithesis. B) Rhetorical question. C) Irony. D) Zeugma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 20. ..... means:a repeated grammatical pattern A) Repetition. B) Parallelism. C) Diction. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. ← 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