This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Rhetorical Strategies – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Strategies Quiz 7 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which type of rhetoric uses personal stories and beliefs? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 2. What strategy might an author use to ensure their central idea is clear to the reader? A) Including unrelated anecdotes. B) Using complex vocabulary. C) Repeating the main point throughout the text. D) Focusing on emotional appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repeating the main point throughout the text. 3. Why might an author choose words with strong connotations? A) To influence how the reader feels. B) To make the text less formal. C) To shorten the text. D) To confuse the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To influence how the reader feels. 4. Giving human qualities to an inanimate object or animal A) Parallelism. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 5. Identify a rhetorical device used by an author to enhance the persuasiveness of a text. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) EthosTagsGA.ELAGSE11-12RI6DOK Level 1:Recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) EthosTagsGA.ELAGSE11-12RI6DOK Level 1:Recall. 6. Rhetorical Strategy: "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." -Bill Clinton's first inaugural address-1993 A) Paradox. B) Simile. C) Anastrophe. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 7. When something is suggested without being concretely stated A) Irony. B) Denotation. C) Implication. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Implication. 8. Which of the following best defines the term "rhetoric" as used in English Language Arts? A) The study of numbers and their properties. B) The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing. C) The process of scientific experimentation. D) The use of fictional characters in a storyTagsCCSS.RI.9-10.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing. 9. Brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth A) Aphorism. B) Allegory. C) Modes of Persuasion. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aphorism. 10. "While Mr. Boutwell is much more articulate and gentle than Mr. Conner, they are both segregationists, dedicated to the task of maintaining the status quo." A) Compare/contrast. B) Exemplification. C) Description. D) Problem/solution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compare/contrast. 11. A new cell phone company advertises that their users can stay easily connected with family members because of the reliable service. A) LOGOS. B) PATHOS. C) ETHOS. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PATHOS. 12. What does it mean to cite facts and statistics? A) Providing facts, numbers, percentages and evidence. B) Acknowledging the other side of the argument. C) Appealing to the audience's feelings. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Providing facts, numbers, percentages and evidence. 13. Please donate to my cousin. She is going through her third round of chemotherapy and the medical bills are piling up. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 14. Arguments made using logic A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 15. "After he ate the chocolate chip cookies, guilt poked and chewed at Anthony."What human characteristic is being given? A) Baking. B) Chewing. C) Making people guilty. D) Eating. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chewing. 16. Mathematical analysis that relies on studies A) Imagery. B) Statistics. C) Pathos. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Statistics. 17. "Phineas Gage had a crowbar go through his head but survived. The damage to certain parts of his brain shows that brain damage can change your personality." A) Anecdote. B) Scenario. C) Facts and statistics. D) Cause and effect chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anecdote. 18. His neighbors refer to him as another Ghandi because he solves their problems peacefully. A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Logos. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 19. The food was dreadful and the service was criminal. A) Either / Or Argument. B) Aphophasis. C) Loaded Words. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loaded Words. 20. Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" is a/an A) Idealistic message, calling for change and sacrifice. B) Prompt for critical thinking. C) Main argument. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idealistic message, calling for change and sacrifice. 21. ..... is the rules that govern sentence structure in a given language. A) Caesura. B) Syntax. C) Aporia. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 22. This strategy intentionally exaggerates conditions for effect. A) Irony. B) Idiom. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 23. Which rhetorical strategy involves using words that have strong emotional associations to persuade the audience? A) Glittering generalities. B) Card stacking. C) Loaded words. D) Transfer technique. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loaded words. 24. Sarah had a sick baby and desperately needed time off from work, but her boss didn't want to give her any. When she came back to work, she was fired. It's people like Sarah who prove we need a paid parental leave policy. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 25. I would have to grow a third arm to complete the same amount of work my spouse does in an hour. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 26. Which of these examples are using emotion? A) Cause and effect. B) Loaded words. C) Personal experience. D) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loaded words. 27. What do you want out of life? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Hypophora. C) Ethos. D) Apophasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 28. "A Holocaust survivor describes what he remembers from the crematoria. He remembers blue flames coming out of a skull." A) Scenario. B) Emotional appeal. C) Juxtaposition. D) Cause and effect chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional appeal. 29. A short and amusing or interesting story about an incident or person A) Rhetoric. B) Allusion. C) Anecdote. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anecdote. 30. Giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object/nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Logos. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRhetorical Strategies Quiz 1Rhetorical Strategies Quiz 2Rhetorical Strategies Quiz 3Rhetorical Strategies Quiz 4Rhetorical Strategies Quiz 5Rhetorical Strategies Quiz 6Rhetorical Strategies Quiz 8Rhetorical Strategies Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books