This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Parallelism For Rhetoric – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 40 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature. A) Anecdote. B) Paradox. C) Chiasmus. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anecdote. 2. An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. "the movie is a ..... of the horror genre" A) Litotes. B) Comedic. C) Satire. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parody. 3. An appeal used to convince someone by creating an emotional response A) Pathos. B) Persuade. C) Reasoning. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 4. Choose the best answer:Have you ever wished you could contact all your friends at once? Wouldn't it be convenient to send a note to all your friends at the same time, instead of contacting each person individually? Download the FriendChat app for your smartphone today! In just minutes, you'll be able to send messages to all your friends simultaneously. For just $ 1.99, you can save yourself a lot of time! A) Inform. B) Explain. C) Entertain. D) Persuade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Persuade. 5. When someone makes a literary, pop culture, musical, or other reference in a text/saying, it is called a(n) ..... A) Allusion. B) Syllogism. C) Paradox. D) Illusion. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 6. In his opening statement, King says he rarely answers criticisms, but he replies to this because A) Their actions were unwise and untimely. B) He believes them to be sincere and good. C) Their letter shows them to be extremist. D) He wants his letter to bring about change. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He believes them to be sincere and good. 7. Who is responsible for conveying the intended message effectively to the audience? A) Audience. B) Subject. C) Context. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 8. Which type of appeal may use children and animals to encourage a response? A) Logical. B) Emotional. C) Literal. D) Ethical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional. 9. What is the purpose of Jargon? A) Used to stir emotions 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: B) To signal expertise and knowledge and therefore establish credibility. 10. The circumstances (like time, place, and occasion) that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea in a way that it can be fully understood and assessed. A) Text. B) Context. C) Allusions. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Context. 11. We are going to have to let you go ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Euphemism. C) Anaphora. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 12. Questions that are intended to have obvious answers, asked for effect A) Slogans and saws. B) Parallelism. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical questions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical questions. 13. Which is the appeal of ethics, especially, the credibility, authority, and trustworthiness of the speaker? A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 14. Read the source of the allusion.In Roman mythology, Cupid is the god of love. He often shoots arrows at people to make them love each other.What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?I know I'm playing Cupid, but I think Bob and my cousin should spend more time together. A) Trying to make people fall in love. B) Sharing or expressing an unpopular point of view. C) Saying kind and pleasant things about people. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trying to make people fall in love. 15. Using language effectively to argue or persuade A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Rhetoric. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 16. True or False:The following is an example of a sentence with parallelism "The shape of the rock, and how big it was, and its color reminded me of a small elephant. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. What example of figurative language is represented in the quote below? "Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble softThe redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies." - "To Autumn, " John Keats A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 18. What is repetition in rhetoric? A) Repeating a word or phrase for an intentional effect. B) Repeating a sentence structure for emphasis. C) Making a comparison between two unlike things. D) Asking a question that doesn't require an answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeating a word or phrase for an intentional effect. 19. "Artificial Light increases on average of 6% each year." This is an example of ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 20. This is a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. A) Metaphor. B) Comparison. C) Oxymoron. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 21. ..... is used to create imagery and express ideas non-literally. A) Irony. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Connotation. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 22. The form of argumentative/persuasive appeal that is based on an appeal to emotions. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 23. An appeal to emotions is ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Kairos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 24. Rhetorical Devicea type of metaphor in which objects are given human-like qualities A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 25. Which rhetorical device is used?There must be strict supervision, there must be an end to speculation, there must be provision for adequate currency. A) Parallelism. B) Analogy. C) Repetition. D) Restatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. ← 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