Free Printable Nonfiction Review

1.

What is a memoir?

a)

A story about a person's entire life.

b)

A made up story

c)

A story about a chunk of time, multiple events in a person's life.

d)

One event in a person's life.

2.

What is a biography?

a)

A story about a real person's life written by that person.

b)

A story about a real person's life written by another person.

c)

A story about a made up person.

d)

A story about one event in a person's life.

3.

What is an autobiography?

a)

A story about a real person's life written by another person.

b)

A made up story

c)

A story about a real person's life written by that person.

d)

A story about one event in a person's life.

4.

What is a simile?

a)

A comparison of two things not using like or as.

b)

An exaggeration

c)

A comparison of two things using like or as.

d)

Sound words

5.

The technique or skill of persuading through your choice of words is which of the following rhetorical devices?

a)

A. Alliteration

b)

B. Metaphor

c)

C. Rhetorical

d)

D. Allusion

6.

A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices?

a)

A. Imagery

b)

B. Personification

c)

C. Rhetoric

d)

E. Rhetorical Question

7.

When a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure. Often they are made to past events or figures, but sometimes they are made to current famous people or events.

a)

A. Imagery

b)

B. Alliteration

c)

C. Rhetoric

d)

D. Allusion

8.

An appeal to trust and ethics is an appeal to...

a)

Logos

b)

Ethos

c)

Pathos

9.

When someone uses data, facts, and logic they’re trying to appeal to

a)

Ethos

b)

Logos

c)

Pathos

10.

An appeal to emotions is an appeal to...

a)

Ethos

b)

Logos

c)

Pathos

11.

Which rhetorical device is the following quotation an example of: "During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT; another company named Pixar...[which] is now the most successful animation studio in the world"?

a)

Ethos

b)

Pathos

c)

Logos

12.

What is the term for a type of speech that is given without any advance preparation?

a)

Memorized

b)

Impromptu

c)

Extemporaneous

d)

Argumentative

13.

What is the phrase to describe the author's main goal or objective in a piece?

a)

Rhetoric

b)

Theme

c)

Rhetorical triangle

d)

Author's purpose

14.

A type of informational text that explains a procedure or strategy is called:

a)

How-to writing

b)

Editorial

c)

Article

d)

Essay

15.

Short prose works that are personal and focus on a particular subject.

a)

essays

b)

speeches

c)

expository

d)

persuasive

16.

Written texts that are delivered orally to an audience

a)

essays

b)

speeches

c)

expository

d)

persuasive

17.

Style of writing designed to convince readers to take action or adopt a point of view

a)

expository

b)

narrative

c)

persuasive

d)

descriptive

18.

Style of writing designed to tell the story of a real life experience

a)

expository

b)

persuasive

c)

narrative

d)

descriptive

19.

Style of writing designed to provide a vivid picture of something

a)

narrative

b)

persuasive

c)

descriptive

d)

expository

20.

A type of speech that is practiced ahead of time and presented word-for-word

a)

Impromptu

b)

Extemporaneous

c)

Memorized

21.

Type of rhetorical device: Nearly 25% of all car accidents are caused by drivers using a cell phone while driving.

a)

ethos

b)

pathos

c)

logos

22.

Type of rhetorical device:

"By donating fifty cents a day...your child can have clean drinking water..."

a)

ethos

b)

pathos

c)

logos

23.

A type of speech that is NOT rehearsed ahead of time and is recited on the spot.

a)

Impromptu

b)

Extemporaneous

c)

Memorized

24.

This quotation is best an example of which rhetorical device: "Today, all of us do, by our presence here, and by our celebrations in other parts of our country and world, confer glory and hope to newborn liberty" (Mandela)?

a)

Ethos

b)

Pathos

c)

Logos

25.

This quotation is an example of which rhetorical device: "The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divides us has come. The time to build is upon us" (Mandela)?

a)

Ethos

b)

Pathos

c)

Logos

26.

Which rhetorical device is this quotation an example of: "About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer...The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months" (Jobs).

a)

Ethos

b)

Pathos

c)

Logos

Nonfiction Review

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 20mins

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