This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Parallelism For Rhetoric – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Parallelism For Rhetoric Quiz 44 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. "Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you." A) Synecdoche. B) Litotes. C) Asyndeton. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chiasmus. 2. "What we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness; but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another ..... " A) Antithesis. B) Irony. C) Anaphora. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 3. What is the best definition of rhetoric? A) The ability to use Greek terms in persuasion. B) The art of getting your message across and creating a persuasive argument. C) The ability to write a good descriptive essay. D) The art of body movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The art of getting your message across and creating a persuasive argument. 4. The art of persuasion is know as A) Rhetoric. B) Tone. C) Ethos. D) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric. 5. Why the speaker is conveying a message A) Purpose. B) Exigence. C) Message. D) Writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purpose. 6. A figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions not normally found in successive words, phrases or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses.The effect is a feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and building up-a persistence or intensity A) Personification. B) Polysyndeton. C) Point of View. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polysyndeton. 7. "What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse an pretty soon they were too complicated." A) Chiasmus. B) Hypophora. C) Parallelism. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypophora. 8. "Isn't English the best class?" Is an example of what rhetorical device? A) The Truth. B) Post hoc ergo propter hoc. C) Hypophora. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 9. What is the rhetorical device when the speaker / author asks a question, and then immediately answers their own question? A) Ethos. B) Hypophora. C) Rhetorical question. D) Counter argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypophora. 10. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structure. A) Parallelism. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 11. In ..... , events turn out the opposite of what was expected. A) Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Situational Irony. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational Irony. 12. "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life."What type of rhetoric is this? A) Logical Appeal. B) Emotional Appeal. C) Deductive Argument. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional Appeal. 13. What is the meaning of the allusion:My brother is a regular Einstein! A) My brother is a genius. B) My brother likes basketball. C) My brother has purple hair. D) My brother is named Einstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My brother is a genius. 14. Using excessive praise A) Namecalling. B) Flattery. C) Illusion. D) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flattery. 15. Recognizing opponent's position and refuting it A) Annotatation. B) Thesis / Claim. C) Counterargument. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Counterargument. 16. When a writer appeals to readers' emotions (often through pathos) to excite and involve them in the argument. A) Emotional appeal. B) Ethical appeal. C) Euphemism. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotional appeal. 17. Imagine you have a teacher you want to thank for helping you out with a difficult situation. Which example will get your message across most clearly? A) I often struggle a lot with situations like that. B) When people help each other, the world is a better place. C) I appreciate your helping me with my tough situation the other day. D) When I have tough situations, it's hard for me to ask for help. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I appreciate your helping me with my tough situation the other day. 18. An ..... is a short personal story. This technique can be used persuasively by connecting the speaker with the audience. A) Allusion. B) Anecdote. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anecdote. 19. Which of the following is NOT a mode of persuasion? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pogos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pogos. 20. A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or a whole paragraph A) Analogy. B) Extended Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extended Metaphor. 21. "These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve." A) Pathos. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 22. Pick the best rhetorical device that is used in the passage. "No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." A) Repetition. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 23. Why did people gather in Gettysburg on Nov. 19, 1863? A) To abolish slavery. B) To dedicate a national cemetery. C) To encourage the Confederacy to rejoin the Union. D) To hear campaign speeches for the upcoming Presidential election. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To dedicate a national cemetery. 24. An exaggeration ..... Example:That class lasted forever. A) Hyperbole. B) Rhetoric. C) Parallelism. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 25. What is the term for word choice and the author's selection of specific language? A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Tone. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diction. ← 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