World Scholar's Cup Rhetoric — practice questions
22 free MCQs with worked solutions. Tap any question for the answer + explanation, or practice them all in the app.
Practice World Scholar's Cup Rhetoric in the app →A speaker builds a believable, authoritative voice so the hall will trust her. That appeal is:An advertisement leans on feelings its viewers already share. That appeal is:A writer stacks up facts, reasons and examples that lead to a sensible conclusion. That appeal is:A campaigner holds her speech back until exactly the right moment. That idea is:Before analysing a speech, a student maps the conditions of communication around it. Those conditions are the:One declarative sentence names the topic, the angle taken and what the rest of the paper will support. That isA speaker returns to one phrase again and again to hammer it home. That device is:Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country repeats one pattern of words. TA speaker asks a question nobody is meant to answer, purely for effect. That device is a:A writer says the virus packed its bags and crossed the ocean. Giving a nonhuman thing human traits is:After a disaster a writer calls it a spot of bother, deliberately playing it down. That device is:Only you can prevent forest fires overstates one person's power on purpose. That device is:The treasure shone like a pirate's gold tooth sets two things side by side using like. That is a:The pizza was a disk of saucy sunlight says one thing simply is another. That is a:In a debate one side goes after the speaker instead of the argument. That fallacy is:An advertisement says everyone is buying these sneakers, so hurry before you are left out. That fallacy is theA speaker warns that one small step will end in disaster. That fallacy is the:Rain fell the evening after a village dance, so someone says the dance brought it. That fallacy is the:A shop advertises cheap phones, then changes the terms once you have agreed to come in. That fallacy is:A writer reaches for the nation's founding principle of equality to stir the reader. That reference is an:A writer supports a claim with statistics and figures. That kind of evidence is:Taking a text apart to see how its persuasion works is a rhetorical: