This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Parallelism For Rhetoric – Quiz 41 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 41 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. MLK's "I Have a Dream" ..... Which metaphor illustrates the broken promises to "her citizens of color" A) A check has come back marked "insufficient funds". B) A dark well with a bottomless bucket tied to a frayed rope. C) Crossroads in a dark forest. D) Recurrent nightmare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A check has come back marked "insufficient funds". 2. An appeal to an audience that uses logic, reasoning, evidence, and facts to support an argument ..... appeals to the more rational side of the audience's minds and provides support for the subject matter. A) Litotes. B) Logical Fallacy. C) Logos. D) Loose Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 3. Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance using the same grammatical form. A) Allusion. B) Paradox. C) Parallel Structure. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallel Structure. 4. It is the element of rhetorical situation which includes the historical background, time, place, and occasion. A) Exigence. B) Purpose. C) Context. D) Choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context. 5. Giving human qualities to non-living things A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 6. The noun or pronoun of a following pronoun refers back to is a A) Modifier. B) Antecedent. C) Parallelism. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antecedent. 7. Which of these is one of the ways to earn the coveted sophistication point? A) Addressing the speaker's perspective. B) Discussing alternate perspectives or a broader context. C) Having topic sentences that show the main idea. D) Providing commentary for each piece of evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discussing alternate perspectives or a broader context. 8. An appeal using emotion A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 9. Figurative language where the author exaggerates to prove a point. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 10. Word order. The structure of how words are put together. A) Hyperbole. B) Syntax. C) Rhetoric. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 11. In what situation does a writer use appeal to authority? A) To add humor or to emphasize an implied meaning. B) To acknowledge the opposition's main idea. C) To lend importance or credibility to his/her argument. D) To persuade others by using words of famous or regular people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To lend importance or credibility to his/her argument. 12. An allusion is a reference to a well-known ..... A) Movie or book, saying, etc. B) Dog. C) Magic trick. D) Disappearance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movie or book, saying, etc. 13. A commercial that focuses on a product's value for a low cost is relying on A) Rhetoric. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 14. Which literary device involves the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 15. The following is an example of what?How a Doctor Diagnoses Diseases are Like How a Detective Investigates Crimes A) Analogy. B) Anecdote. C) Syntax. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 16. This method of persuasion requires a credible authority to convince the audience. (a) A) A. ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. ethos. 17. Sock:Foot as Gloves:Hand, is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 18. "It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land." Which of the following is NOT an allusion from this section? A) Suffrage/Women getting the vote. B) John F. Kennedy. C) Martin Luther King, Jr. D) The call for unions. E) Abraham Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Abraham Lincoln. 19. Use of the words such as "liberty, freedom, and nation" are examples of which rhetorical device? A) Holy War. B) Appeal to Patriotism. C) Parallelism. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to Patriotism. 20. "The next time you text & drive:picture your parents having to identify your body in the morgue."This is an example of ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 21. The art of using words to persuade in writing or speaking A) Tone. B) Style. C) Rhetoric. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 22. A horse is a horse, of course, of course. And no one can talk to a horse of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed A) Repetition. B) Metaphor. C) Extended Metaphor. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 23. What is the main goal of using rhetorical devices in language? A) To make language more confusing and difficult to understand. B) To make language more memorable and impactful. C) To shorten sentences and simplify ideas. D) To avoid making a clear point. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To make language more memorable and impactful. 24. I'm not insulting you. I'm just describing you. A) Anaphora. B) Irony. C) Sarcasm. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarcasm. 25. The references made to James Madison, when California joins the U.S.A. and to Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, etc. are examples of A) Motif. B) History. C) Analogy. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. ← 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