Rhetoric Terms Quiz

Rhetoric uses credibility, logic, and emotion to persuade the audience

• True

• False

The best rhetoricians use pathos over logos and ethos.

• True

• False

Term for a short and amusing or interesting story, often proposed to support or demonstrate some point

• anaphora

• allusion

• analogy

• anecdote

The same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• anaphora

• allusion

• analogy

• alliteration

Convincing others of the character or credibility of the persuader

• anaphora

• allusion

• analogy

• ethos

Term for convincing others of the character or credibility of the persuader

• Pathos

• Anecdote

• Logos

• Ethos

Term for a neutral, factual, and unbiased way of presenting information

• formal style

• objective tone

• controlling idea

• rhetorical question

Expressing the same idea in different words to clarify

• formal style

• restatement

• repetition

• rhetorical question

neutral, factual, unbiased information

• formal style

• objective tone

• repetition

• rhetorical question

Term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Anecdote