Rhetorical Questions Quiz 2 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🎯 Rhetorical Questions – Quiz 2
1. Example:I have to have this operation. It is very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
A) Understatement.
B) Assonance.
C) Simile.
D) Metaphor.
2. Persuading by appealing to the audience's emotions.
A) Pathos.
B) Ethos.
C) Logos.
D) Alliteration.
3. Example:She's feeling blue.
A) Denotation.
B) Connotation.
C) Pathos.
D) Metaphor.
4. Comparison using like or as.
A) Epistrophe.
B) Smiley.
C) Simile.
D) Metaphor.
5. An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning.
A) Antithesis.
B) Hyperbole.
C) Denotation.
D) Connotation.
6. "Why fix what isn't broken?" suggests that:.
A) There are no problems.
B) Things should be left as they are.
C) A problem is being ignored.
D) Everything needs fixing.
E) You should always seek improvement.
7. A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
A) Pun.
B) Oxymoron.
C) Assonance.
D) Alliteration.
8. An interrogative question requires an answer.
A) Yes.
B) No.
9. Persuading through the character and credibility of the author.
A) Logos.
B) Pathos.
C) Ethos.
D) Path.
10. Example:We shall pay the price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty (JFK's Inaugural Address).
A) Parallelism.
B) Metaphor.
C) Anaphora.
D) Antithesis.
11. Example:An elephants opinion holds a lot of weight.
A) Hyperbole.
B) Pun.
C) Euphemism.
D) Metaphor.
12. Example:"It's so beautiful I could just die".
A) Verbal irony.
B) Situational irony.
C) Dramatic irony.
D) Irony.
13. Example:he was a real Romeo with the ladies.
A) Allusion.
B) Alliteration.
C) Act 1.
D) Acting.
14. A literary devices by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.
A) Verbal irony.
B) Situational irony.
C) Dramatic irony.
D) Irony.
15. Example:Go big or go home.
A) Assonance.
B) Anaphora.
C) Repetition.
D) Juxtaposition.
16. Example:sanitation engineer instead of garbage man.
A) Euphemism.
B) Juxtaposition.
C) Metaphor.
D) Parallelism.
17. The repetition of the first consonant sound occuring close together in a series.
A) Alliteration.
B) Allusion.
C) Anaphora.
D) Analogy.
18. It sure is hot today, isn't it?.
A) T.
B) F.
19. What is a rhetorical question?.
A) A question that doesn't need an answer.
B) A question that is easy to answer.
C) A question that requires research.
D) A question that requires an answer.
E) A question that is difficult to answer.
20. A statement that expresses the opposite of the literal meaning of the words. Often used for humorous or sarcastic effect.
A) Understatement.
B) Dramatic irony.
C) Irony.
D) Verbal irony.
21. Where did you grow up?.
A) F.
B) T.
22. Example "But a better butter makes a better batter".
A) Alliteration.
B) Metaphor.
C) Allusion.
D) Simile.
23. Persuading by using logic and reasoning.
A) Metaphor.
B) Ethos.
C) Pathos.
D) Logos.
24. Two strongly contrasting ideas, expressed using parallel structure, are placed side by side.
A) Antithesis.
B) Ethos.
C) Assonance.
D) Alliteration.
25. Placing to words side by side so as to highlight their differences.
A) Juxtaposition.
B) Oxymoron.
C) Assonance.
D) Pathos.