This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Parallelism For Rhetoric – Quiz 39 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 39 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is an appeal to credibility or ethics? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 2. Audience appeals are A) Ways to cheer up an audience. B) Methods of persuading an audience through emotion, logic and ethics. C) Methods of persuading an audience to give you something. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Methods of persuading an audience through emotion, logic and ethics. 3. "I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers." ..... Langston Hughes Which technique is used prominently in the above line of Hughes' poem? A) Repetition. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 4. What does the word "ALLUSION" mean? A) Hinting at events that will happen later in the story. B) Citing evidence word-for-word, with quotation marks and page numbers. C) Reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or idea of significance. D) Clearly stating the meaning of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or idea of significance. 5. A way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response to an impassioned plea or a convincing story. A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 6. Ethos tries to appeal to someone's ..... A) Ethics and Credibility. B) Emotions and Feelings. C) Logic and Reason. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethics and Credibility. 7. In the context of rhetoric, what does 'kairos' refer to? A) The credibility of the speaker. B) The emotional appeal to the audience. C) The opportune moment to deliver a message. D) The logical structure of the argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The opportune moment to deliver a message. 8. What will the timing be like on AP exam day? A) Login right at exam time; write or type for 45 minutes. B) Login 30 minutes early; write or type for 50 minutes. C) Login 30 minutes early; write or type for 45 minutes; upload assignment for 5 minutes. D) Trick question, there is no exam!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Login 30 minutes early; write or type for 45 minutes; upload assignment for 5 minutes. 9. One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. A) Analogy. B) Anaphora. C) Chiasmus. D) Clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 10. What literary device involves making a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'? A) Metaphor. B) Analogy. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 11. How do you define logos? A) An appeal to the reader's emotions. B) An appeal relying on the credibility of the speaker. C) The art of speaking and writing effectively. D) An appeal using logic, reason, data, statistics, and even science. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An appeal using logic, reason, data, statistics, and even science. 12. According to Kennedy, where do the rights of human beings come from? A) Philosophers. B) Nature. C) The Government. D) God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) God. 13. I went walking with my friends to the pond to do some swimming. What rhetoric is being used here? A) Paralellism. B) Repetition. C) Deductive Argument. D) Inductive Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paralellism. 14. The act of effective or persuasive speaking or writing A) Rhetoric. B) Argument. C) Persuade. D) Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric. 15. "In 25 years of driving the same route, I have not seen a single deer." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 16. Rhetorical Device retpetiotion at the end of a line to emphasize a particular idea A) Anaphora. B) Parallelism. C) Epistrophe. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epistrophe. 17. Question not asked for information but for the effect (not to be confused with HYPOPHORA) A) Rhetorical question. B) Syntactical question. C) Allusion question. D) Satirical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 18. If someone says, "Your phone is to you what a map is to a hiker, " what rhetorical device are they using? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 19. ..... is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Parallelism. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 20. The subject matter of Buck O'Neil's speech is ..... A) Honoring those supported the Negro Leagues. B) Fans of baseball. C) Listing all of his accomplishments. D) Honoring Americans in the 1930's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Honoring those supported the Negro Leagues. 21. An anecdote is primarily used in literature to: A) Provide a historical context. B) Introduce a new character. C) Illustrate a point or add credibility to an argument. D) Describe the setting in detail. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Illustrate a point or add credibility to an argument. 22. How would they feel under such conditions? Being confined to a cold, cramped house. Having no freedom beyond the parlor and the kitchen. Watching others taste the sweet opportunities and savory powers that come with social and political choice. Suffering as others make decisions for you that rather harm than help. A) Logos. B) Pyros. C) Ethos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 23. It is what the writer hopes to accomplish or happen as a result of the writing. A) Exigence. B) Purpose. C) Appeals. D) Choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Purpose. 24. Who was the intended audience? A) All Americans. B) Union soldiers, residents of Gettysburg, and loved ones of the deceased. C) The Confederacy. D) School students across America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Union soldiers, residents of Gettysburg, and loved ones of the deceased. 25. What is one way to appeal to pathos? A) By choosing language that has powerful rhythms. B) By drawing a conclusion that is based on specific circumstances. C) By including examples that are supported by solid sources. D) By using a structure that is easy for the audience to follow. 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