This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Parallelism For Rhetoric – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 28 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the opening paragraph of his letter, King says that he rarely pauses to answer criticisms, but he is replying to the clergymen because A) Their actions were unwise and untimely. B) Their letter shows them to be extremists. C) He believes them to be sincere and good. D) He wants his letter to bring about change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He believes them to be sincere and good. 2. -Repetition of the same word in a sentence-Repetition of parts of a sentence-Repetition of repeating clauses A) Simile. B) Analogy. C) Antithesis. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 3. An appeal using one's reputation or credibility A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 4. Rhetorical ..... are techniques that writers use to enhance arguments and convey ideas. A) Ideas. B) Questions. C) Devices. D) Answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Devices. 5. A diagram that illustrates the relationships among speaker, audience and subject. A) ESOAPS. B) The Rhetorical Triangle. C) The Rhetorical Situation. D) SAS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Rhetorical Triangle. 6. What is the term for the context in which communication takes place, including the speaker, audience, and purpose? A) Ethos. B) Rhetorical Situation. C) Pathos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Situation. 7. Which means everything you do-playing games, surfing the web, enjoying photos and videos-becomes more personal, immediate, and immersive ..... This is an example of what? A) Attack. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Repetition. D) Rule of Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rule of Three. 8. When FDR says in his speech, "we must become like a trained and loyal army" which rhetorical device is being used? A) Rehtorical question. B) Parallelism. C) Restatement. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 9. Repeats a word or phrase in successive phrases- "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?" (Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare) A) Alliteration. B) Pathos. C) Anaphora. D) Asyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 10. Asking something with an obvious or known answer intended to make a point or to guide the audience A) Repetition. B) Charged words. C) Extended metaphor. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 11. Which kind of rhetoric would try to use a professor or a writer to convince a group of people? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 12. The following is an example of, " "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation" A) Analogy. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 13. In literature, what is the purpose of using a rhetorical question? A) To confuse the reader. B) To provide an answer. C) To emphasize a point. D) To introduce a new topic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To emphasize a point. 14. Reasoning that is evidence-driven to reach a tentative theory. A) Deductive. B) Inductive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inductive. 15. Using the same structure (in a list or series in a sentence) ..... Ex:We are going to learn to cook, to sew, and to clean. A) Parallelism/Parallel Structure. B) Speech Structures. C) Allusion. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism/Parallel Structure. 16. The repetition of words or phrases for emphasis or effect. A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Restatement. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 17. She dances like a chicken on hot coals. A) Synedoche. B) Simile. C) Paradox. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 18. King compares himself to early Christian prophets because they A) Died fighting for their cause. B) Did not submit to unjust laws. C) Believed in civil disobedience. D) Did not negotiate with enemies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Did not submit to unjust laws. 19. Why was King in Birmingham? A) He was invited to help fight the segregation there. B) He lived there. C) He gave a speech there but drove over the speed limit on his way out of town. D) He picked Birmingham as the next place to hold a non-violent protest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was invited to help fight the segregation there. 20. What rhetorical device is another word for metaphors, similes, and personification? A) Allusion. B) Juxtaposition. C) Understatement. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative language. 21. This rhetorical appeal uses emotion A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 22. What is the central idea or main argument of an essay, guiding the content and organization of the writing? A) Rhetorical Questions. B) Antithesis. C) Connotation. D) Thesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thesis. 23. If you want peace, you must prepare for war. A) Oxymoron. B) Juxtaposition. C) Rhetorical questions. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juxtaposition. 24. A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art A) Rhetorical device. B) Allusion. C) Anecdote. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 25. When employing facts, statistics, real-life anecdotes (stories, or examples) in a speech or in writing the speaker/author are employing what? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. 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