This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Parallelism For Rhetoric – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 1 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Occurs when someone takes another person's argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion A) Plain folks. B) Begging the question. C) Straw Man. D) Red herring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Straw Man. 2. Denotes speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution. It involves the use of abusive and negative use of language. A) Hyperbole. B) Rhetoric. C) Negativity. D) Invective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Invective. 3. She is, after all, very loyal. A) Expletive. B) Analogy. C) Antimetabole. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expletive. 4. A form of logical reasoning that joins two or more premises to arrive at a conclusion. For example: "All birds lay eggs. A swan is a bird. Therefore, a swan lays eggs." A) Rhetoric. B) Syllogism. C) Logos. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syllogism. 5. A type of metaphor in which non ..... human objects or ideas are given human qualities. Example: "The wind whispered her name." A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Parallelism. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 6. What value does Kennedy emphasize MOST in his speech? A) Friendships with other nations. B) Protecting liberty around the country. C) Freedom of Religion. D) Solving world conflicts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protecting liberty around the country. 7. Which of the following quotes is an example of repetition? A) "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here". B) "this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom". C) "that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause". D) "we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain". E) "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish". Show Answer Correct Answer: E) "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish". 8. "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts." is A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Anaphora. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 9. The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing is called A) Persuasion. B) Arguing. C) Rhetoric. D) Complaining. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 10. What has the power to "abolish all forms ..... of human life" ? A) Nuclear weapons. B) Poverty. C) The United Nations. D) America's enemies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nuclear weapons. 11. What is the purpose of Loaded Words? A) Used to stir emotions of either anger or passion of the listener/reader. B) To signal expertise and knowledge and therefore establish credibility. C) To reinforce certain words and phrases, building emphasis with each one. D) Prompts thought and leads an audience to certain conclusions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Used to stir emotions of either anger or passion of the listener/reader. 12. We CameWe SawWe ConqueredThe above is an example of: A) Repetition. B) Restatement. C) Parallelism. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 13. Which factors can affect your writing? A) Age. B) Gender. C) Political beliefs. D) Education. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 14. The effective use of language to persuade, inform, or educate A) Rhetoric. B) Rhetorical situation. C) Persuasion. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric. 15. Which of the following is an example of inductive reasoning? A) I heard on the radio that the first day of summer will be cool, so it will be cool that day. B) It has been cool every day this summer so far, so tomorrow will likely be cool too. C) It was cool on the first day of summer, so the entire summer will be cool. D) June is the coolest summer month where I live, so it will probably be cool this June. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was cool on the first day of summer, so the entire summer will be cool. 16. The target of the rhetoric A) Speaker. B) Audience. C) Text. D) Rhetorical triangle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Audience. 17. The mood created by the diction in a literary work is referred to as its: A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Plot. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 18. "I didn't want this place to touch him except through me" (59) is an example of which technique? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. "Evil" & "Hate" could be examples of ..... A) Ethos. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Loaded Language. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loaded Language. 20. A laudatory expression in a speech, or a written tribute to a person deceased recently A) Eulogy. B) Aside. C) Condolences. D) Eponym. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eulogy. 21. This technique attempts to use emotions to manipulate how the audience feels about the argument presented. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 22. The use of parallel grammatical structures in writing is called: A) Syntax. B) Parallelism. C) Repetition. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 23. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus kills his own father without realizing that the man is actually his father. This act brings on a plague and Oedipus swears that he will murder the man responsible, not knowing that he himself is responsible. A) Irony. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 24. The attribution of human characteristics and qualities to non-humans. The non-human being is actually behaving like a human. A) Personification. B) Anthropomorphism. C) Analogy. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anthropomorphism. 25. The appeal to logic and reason to convince or persuade. A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. Next →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesParallelism 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 9Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books