Global MCQ Practice

🌐 Total MCQ
🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books

Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 6 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. SOAPSTone is an acronym that stands for .....
2. The following is an example of, "I don't like going to 8th period, that place is a zoo."
3. What is the meaning of the allusion:Ask me anything, I'm like Google!
4. A form of understatement in which a sentiment is expressed ironically by negating its contrary.
5. "Prosperity already tests the persistence of our progressive purpose."
6. "We will not falter or fail. We will go on to the end. We will fight in France. We will fight on the seas and oceans."This is an example of .....
7. Which of the following rhetorical terms refers to the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses?
8. What is the term for the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques?
9. Using emotion to support a claim or opinion is
10. ..... is representing ideas as greater than is actually the case.
11. A reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
12. To ask a question of an audience to engage them without having a response from the audience is called .....
13. ..... came up with the ideas of ethos, pathos and logos.
14. A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
15. What appeal is Sojourner Truth using when she makes the following statement?"Look at me! Look at my arm. I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man ..... when I could get it ..... and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman?"
16. "It's like being a kid in a candy store" is an example of .....
17. What is the primary purpose of Dr. King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'?
18. Which of these is an ethical or moral argument?
19. What is the art of persuasion involving the strategic use of language and communication techniques to influence an audience?
20. The attitude of a writer toward a subject is called .....
21. The same word is repeated in immediate succession
22. Which of the following is a characteristic of a well-structured argument in rhetoric?
23. What is the purpose of using hyperbole in rhetoric?
24. Several parts of a sentence or several sentences expressed in similar grammatical form; "I came, I saw, I conquered."
25. An exaggeration used to prove a point is called .....
26. Writing using a repeated grammatical structure is called
27. Read this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence:Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. Which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used here?
28. What is the appeal to ethics and credibility, establishing the speaker's authority and trustworthiness?
29. Particular point in a narrative in which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.
30. The first to write about rhetoric as an important way to persuade your audience
31. The writer's reason for creating a text is called:
32. Inductive reasoning is weaker than deductive reasoning because it:
33. The Focus of an argument .....
34. Rhetorical Analysis Lesson
35. When the speaker presents limited choices as the only choices when in fact additional choices do exist.
36. Define the author's purpose
37. It was so crowded that there must have been a million people at the restaurant!
38. MLK's "I Have a Dream" ..... How has America given her citizens of color "a bad check" that has been returned "marked insufficient funds" ?
39. The creator of a message; the producer of an argument; the composer of a written or spoken text.
40. This is a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
41. ..... is a literary device wherein the author places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to another. The purpose of this technique is to highlight the contrast between two entities and compare them.
42. Linking devices that hold a text together ..... they give a universal meaning to a story.
43. Which of the following best describes the tone of 'I Have a Dream'?
44. How would you define the term ETHOS when discussing rhetorical appeals?
45. Which rhetorical device is used?Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.
46. Determine the author's point of view in the following passage: "The use of renewable energy is not just an option; it is a necessity for the survival of our planet."
47. Which of the following is an example of deductive reasoning?
48. Strategy of emotions and affect. This strategy attempts to create or play on strong emotion in order persuade the audience to act.
49. Expressing the same idea in different words to make it more clear or memorable.
50. In an appeal to emotion, this argument is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response to an impassioned plea or convincing story
51. ..... is a direct comparison between two objects. Example:But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
52. Another word for theme is .....
53. What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below? "In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a ruglaid for the feet of the coming sun ..... "- "The Red Badge of Courage, " Stephen Crane
54. When coordinating conjunctions are used several times in close succession, particularly where conjunctions would normally not be present at all.
55. The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is
56. True or False:The difference between a complex and compound-complex sentence is that complex sentence has two or more independent clauses and a compound-complex has one independent clause.
57. They say he's closed the eyes of many a man and opened the eyes of many a woman.
58. Term for convincing others of the character or credibility of the persuader
59. What is the suggested length of time for the rhetorical analysis essay?
60. What is the rhetorical element that uses emotional persuasion?
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books