This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Parallelism For Rhetoric – Quiz 34 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 34 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. True or False:The following is an example of a sentence with parallelism "The shape of the rock, and how big it was, and its color reminded me of a small elephant. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below? "Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble softThe redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies." - "To Autumn, " John Keats A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 3. What is repetition in rhetoric? A) Repeating a word or phrase for an intentional effect. B) Repeating a sentence structure for emphasis. C) Making a comparison between two unlike things. D) Asking a question that doesn't require an answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeating a word or phrase for an intentional effect. 4. "Artificial Light increases on average of 6% each year." This is an example of ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 5. This is a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. A) Metaphor. B) Comparison. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 6. ..... is used to create imagery and express ideas non-literally. A) Irony. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Connotation. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 7. The form of argumentative/persuasive appeal that is based on an appeal to emotions. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 8. An appeal to emotions is ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Kairos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 9. Rhetorical Devicea type of metaphor in which objects are given human-like qualities A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 10. Which rhetorical device is used?There must be strict supervision, there must be an end to speculation, there must be provision for adequate currency. A) Parallelism. B) Analogy. C) Repetition. D) Restatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 11. MLK's "I Have a Dream" ..... Which metaphor illustrates the broken promises to "her citizens of color" A) A check has come back marked "insufficient funds". B) A dark well with a bottomless bucket tied to a frayed rope. C) Crossroads in a dark forest. D) Recurrent nightmare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A check has come back marked "insufficient funds". 12. An appeal to an audience that uses logic, reasoning, evidence, and facts to support an argument ..... appeals to the more rational side of the audience's minds and provides support for the subject matter. A) Litotes. B) Logical Fallacy. C) Logos. D) Loose Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 13. Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance using the same grammatical form. A) Allusion. B) Paradox. C) Parallel Structure. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallel Structure. 14. It is the element of rhetorical situation which includes the historical background, time, place, and occasion. A) Exigence. B) Purpose. C) Context. D) Choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context. 15. Giving human qualities to non-living things A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 16. The noun or pronoun of a following pronoun refers back to is a A) Modifier. B) Antecedent. C) Parallelism. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antecedent. 17. Which of these is one of the ways to earn the coveted sophistication point? A) Addressing the speaker's perspective. B) Discussing alternate perspectives or a broader context. C) Having topic sentences that show the main idea. D) Providing commentary for each piece of evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discussing alternate perspectives or a broader context. 18. An appeal using emotion A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 19. Figurative language where the author exaggerates to prove a point. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 20. Word order. The structure of how words are put together. A) Hyperbole. B) Syntax. C) Rhetoric. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 21. In what situation does a writer use appeal to authority? A) To add humor or to emphasize an implied meaning. B) To acknowledge the opposition's main idea. C) To lend importance or credibility to his/her argument. D) To persuade others by using words of famous or regular people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To lend importance or credibility to his/her argument. 22. An allusion is a reference to a well-known ..... A) Movie or book, saying, etc. B) Dog. C) Magic trick. D) Disappearance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movie or book, saying, etc. 23. A commercial that focuses on a product's value for a low cost is relying on A) Rhetoric. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 24. Which literary device involves the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 25. The following is an example of what?How a Doctor Diagnoses Diseases are Like How a Detective Investigates Crimes A) Analogy. B) Anecdote. C) Syntax. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 26. This method of persuasion requires a credible authority to convince the audience. (a) A) A. ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. ethos. 27. Sock:Foot as Gloves:Hand, is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 28. "It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land." Which of the following is NOT an allusion from this section? A) Suffrage/Women getting the vote. B) John F. Kennedy. C) Martin Luther King, Jr. D) The call for unions. E) Abraham Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Abraham Lincoln. 29. Use of the words such as "liberty, freedom, and nation" are examples of which rhetorical device? A) Holy War. B) Appeal to Patriotism. C) Parallelism. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to Patriotism. 30. "The next time you text & drive:picture your parents having to identify your body in the morgue."This is an example of ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesParallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 1Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 2Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 3Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 4Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 5Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 6Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 7Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 8Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books