This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Parallelism For Rhetoric – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 21 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Represents credibility or an ethical appeal which involves persuasion by the character involved. A) Enumeratio. B) Epistrophe. C) Ethos. D) Expletive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 2. How would you describe a juxtaposition? A) Two or more words, phrases, or ideas placed close together in order to compare and contrast them for effect. B) Uses the same word or words more than once for emphasis; often creates a rhythm. C) Makes a comparison between two subjects that are alike in some ways. D) Uses grammatical construction to express ideas that are related or of equal importance; often creates a rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two or more words, phrases, or ideas placed close together in order to compare and contrast them for effect. 3. Items in a SeriesChoose the sentence with correct parallel structure. A) We debated all aspects of the issue:moral, political, and cost. B) We debated all aspects of the issue:moral, political, and financial. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We debated all aspects of the issue:moral, political, and financial. 4. Which term best defines the following?"A short story about a person or event used to make a point." A) Facts. B) Anecdote. C) Analogy. D) Rule of Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anecdote. 5. Meanings of words are the opposite of their usual meanings ..... Example:Paying ahead for parking and arriving and seeing that parking is free A) Alliteration. B) Opposites attract. C) Rhetoric. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 6. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence: "She is as beautiful as a sunrise, as stunning as a sunset." A) Allusion. B) Antithesis. C) Parallelism. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 7. An ad using a funny talking dog to sell a product is focused on: A) Allusion. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 8. What rhetorical device is used in the following sentence? 'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.' A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 9. You should always consider if an argument is persuasive and ..... A) Who the intended audience is. B) How much money is involved. C) How does it help you. D) Who Aristotle was. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Who the intended audience is. 10. ..... is one that is raised in order to make a point rather than elicit an answer, since the answer may be obvious or self-evident. A) Hypophora. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Anaphora. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Question. 11. Identify the rhetorical device:'Isn't it a bit too late to start studying now?' A) Irony. B) Rhetorical question. C) Sarcasm. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 12. When Lincoln states, "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here ..... " This is an example of which of the following? A) Allusion. B) Rhetoric. C) Irony. D) Humor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 13. Read this excerpt from Common Sense:The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak.What kind of figurative language does Thomas Paine use here? A) Simile. B) Diction. C) Personification. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. In 'Letter from Birmingham Jail, ' how does Dr. King address the criticism that his actions are 'untimely'? A) By arguing that justice delayed is justice denied. B) By stating that patience is a virtue. C) By agreeing with the criticism. D) By ignoring the criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By arguing that justice delayed is justice denied. 15. What is the following an example of:he was brave. he was bold. he was selfless A) Oxymoron. B) Personification. C) Parallelism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 16. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." ..... This is an example of what? A) Jargon. B) Anecdote. C) Parallelism. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 17. How would you define the term PATHOS when discussing rhetorical appeals? A) Relies on an emotional response. B) Establishes author's trustworthiness or expertise. C) Uses logical reasoning and facts. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relies on an emotional response. 18. Using opposite ideas to make a point. A) Restatement. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 19. This rhetorical device presents an idea as fact without explanation by making bold claims to persuade an audience. A) Assertion. B) Evidence. C) Exaggeration. D) Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assertion. 20. Do pigs fly? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Oxymoron. C) Charged Words. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 21. The assertion that is in opposition to the speaker's claim. This is the claim that the speaker must argue against. A) Claim. B) Counterclaim. C) Text. D) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Counterclaim. 22. Rhetorical devices and figurative language are the same thing. The only difference is how they are being used. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. What term matches the example?An activist asks the audience, "Why do we continue to ignore the suffering of these people?" in order to make a point A) Restatement. B) Parallelism. C) Counterargument. D) Rhetorical question. E) AlliterationTagsCCSS.RL.2.4CCSS.RL.7.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 24. A comparison of two things and uses the words "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 25. A writer's distinctive use of langauge A) Syntax. B) Denotation. C) Voice. D) Loose sentece. 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