This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Parallelism For Rhetoric – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 14 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... are the persuasive strategy of addressing and criticizing an opposing view. A) Assertions. B) Irony. C) Understatements. D) Attacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Attacks. 2. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words"This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent" A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. Doctors agree that flossing is beneficial for your teeth. What type of rhetoric is being used here? A) Ethical Appeal. B) Dr.'s are always right. C) Logical Appeal. D) Emotional Appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logical Appeal. 4. The way(s) in which a speaker arranges his or her speech A) Speech Structure. B) Parallel Structure. C) Rhetoric. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speech Structure. 5. Name of a legend or real person that writers associate with some other person, object, institution or thing. Pickwickian from "Pickwick Papers" A) Persona. B) Institutionalization. C) Eponym. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eponym. 6. "Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul, And sings the tune-without the words, And never stops at all, "-Emily Dickinson A) Anaphora. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Extended Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extended Metaphor. 7. Pick the best rhetorical device that is used in the passage. "Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation." A) Alliteration. B) Nostalgia. C) Allusion. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 8. The listener, viewer or reader of a text. A) Subject. B) Audience. C) Speaker. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Audience. 9. "Unique" is an example of what? A) Positive Connotation. B) Negative Connotation. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive Connotation. 10. A question asked to make a point is which of the following rhetorical devices? A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Rhetoric. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Question. 11. A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned; out of time and place A) Anachronism. B) Antithesis. C) Anecdote. D) Antecedent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anachronism. 12. Why do writers use rhetorical elements in their writing? A) To persuade the audience. B) To follow a set of rules. C) To make their writing longer. D) To confuse readers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To persuade the audience. 13. "We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers ..... in English, Hebrew, and Arabic."George W. Bush A) Anaphora. B) Parallelism. C) Metaphor. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 14. Which rhetorical term refers to the emotional appeal used to persuade an audience? A) Kairos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 15. ..... is a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity. A) Repetition. B) Parallelism. C) Alliteration. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 16. Which rhetorical device is characterized by a comparison between two subjects that are alike in some ways? A) Allusion. B) Analogy. C) Anecdote. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 17. A lack of conjunctions between words, phrases, sentences A) Asyndeton. B) Anadiplosis. C) Analogy. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asyndeton. 18. "Comfort says, 'Tarry a while." ' A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Pathos. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 19. MLK's "I Have a Dream" ..... " ..... and we will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." ' What type of figurative language is stated here? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 20. Which of the following rhetorical devices involves the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses? A) Anaphora. B) Irony. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 21. The recurrence of similar consonant sounds in close proximity. A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 22. A literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. A) Litotes. B) Simile. C) Mood. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 23. A question that does not require an answer because the answer is obvious A) Rhetorical question. B) Rhetorical devices. C) Rhetoric. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 24. We will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." A) Vernacular. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 25. What is the choice and use of words in writing or speech, influencing the tone, style, and overall impact of the message? A) Juxtaposition. B) Syntax. C) Parallelism. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diction. 26. This pattern of organization involves a step-by-step progression, like a recipe. A) Sequential. B) Chronological. C) Topical. D) Spatial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sequential. 27. What is an anecdote used for in rhetoric? A) To tell a short story to make a point. B) To ask a question that has an obvious answer. C) To provide a long, detailed historical account. D) To directly compare two unrelated concepts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To tell a short story to make a point. 28. What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below? "Our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feastof the mind." -Sand and Foam, Khalil Gibran A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 29. Reference to a person, place, thing, or work of literatureEx:He was a real Romeo with the ladies. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Administration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 30. Statements or words that are NOT plainly expressed but rather suggested A) Explicit. B) Implicit. C) All the above. D) None of the above. 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