This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Parallelism For Rhetoric – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 37 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What should you include in your speech's introduction A) Catch your audience's attention, state your topic, and your thesis statement. B) Catch the audience's attention and state your topic. C) Give your thesis statement. D) Catch the audience attention and your thesis statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Catch your audience's attention, state your topic, and your thesis statement. 2. How much longer can this injustice continue? A) Rhetorical question. B) Repetition. C) Loose/periodic sentence. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 3. Uses information likely to frighten the audience for thepurpose of strengthening a speaker's or writer's argument A) Appeal to fear-an emotional appeal. B) Appeal to patriotism-an emotional appeal. C) Appeal to pride-an emotional appeal. D) Appeal to authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to fear-an emotional appeal. 4. Which of the following best describes an anecdote? A) A brief story used to make a point or to entertain. B) A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences or lines in a poem. C) A figure of speech that implies a comparison. D) A repeated phrase or sentence used for emphasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A brief story used to make a point or to entertain. 5. What is the rhetorical element that uses logical persuasion? A) Delta. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 6. For many young women, wearing the hijab (Islamic head covering) shows that they are attached to their culture, proud of their religion, and secure in their identity. A) Oxymoron. B) Parallelism. C) Anaphora. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 7. Which word means "an exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally?" A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Logos. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 8. At one school that recently required students to wear uniforms, attendance rates went up, and behavior incidents went down. What type of persuasive rhetoric is this? A) Emotional Appeal. B) Deductive argument. C) Logical Appeal. D) Ethical Appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logical Appeal. 9. What rhetorical device juxtaposes (contrasts) two opposing or contrasting ideas within a sentence, often using a parallel structure? A) Metaphor. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 10. Repeats a word or expression for emphasis-Love, real love, takes time. A) Rhetoric. B) Chiasmus. C) Eponym. D) Amplification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amplification. 11. Logos is the appeal of ..... A) Logic. B) Emotions. C) Credibility. D) Ethics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logic. 12. When Malala says, "The pen is mightier than the sword." She is using a(n) ..... A) Anecdote. B) Proverb. C) Anecdote. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proverb. 13. Which element of persuasion is primarily based on the speaker's credibility and character? A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Kairos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 14. In "Letter from Birmingham Jail, " how does King establish his credibility (ethos) with his audience? A) By showing his emotional vulnerability. B) By demonstrating his knowledge of religious and historical texts. C) By using complex vocabulary and syntax. D) By expressing anger towards his critics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By demonstrating his knowledge of religious and historical texts. 15. Identify the type of figurative language in this sentence:'The classroom was a zoo.' A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. Rhetoric uses credibility, logic, and emotion to persuade the audience A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Which element is a figurative language device? A) Speaker. B) Metaphor. C) Audience. D) Message. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. A type of figurative language in which one thing is said to be another thing. A) Tone. B) Simile. C) Mood. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 19. The tone of a text or speech is much like the ..... it creates. A) Attitude/ emotion. B) Image. C) Message. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attitude/ emotion. 20. The rain in spain falls mostly in the plains. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 21. The specific occasion/event that prompted the message to be written/spoken A) Exigence. B) Message. C) Writer. D) Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exigence. 22. The right, critical or opportune moment-when should the speaker deliver his/her message. When is the most critical or opportunistic moment to speak? A) Kairos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kairos. 23. Making a concession in an argument is effective because it shows that the writer A) Uses clear, rational ideas. B) Understands a viewpoint other than their own. C) Ignores ideas that run counter to their own. D) Provides a balance of ethos, pathos, logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understands a viewpoint other than their own. 24. What is the term for a rhetorical device that uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect? A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 25. Which type of evidence is this:specific instances that illustrate points? A) Example. B) Statistics. C) Graphs. D) Comparisons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Example. ← 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