Debate & Discussion Quizzes, Questions & Answers

All Grades

Top Trending Debate & Discussion Quizzes

Read the question and answer TRUE if it is a rhetorical question. Answer FALSE if it is a regular question.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 7996 | Last updated: Jun 19, 2025

Sample Question
Why are rhetorical questions effective in persuasive writing?

They lead the audience to a predetermined conclusion

They create confusion and ambiguity

The 'English 100: Argument Quiz' assesses understanding of argumentation in writing. It covers the essentials of crafting argument paragraphs, identifying the purpose of arguments in academic and professional contexts, and...

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 327 | Last updated: Feb 22, 2025

Sample Question
When you write an argument paragraph, you

Attack others' ideas in a heated, emotional way.

Define the meaning of a term or issue.

Take a position on an issue and try to defend your position.

Make a point by telling a story.

Do You Know About Rhetorical Devices?

This is a multiple choice quiz on rhetorical devices, it is simply asking you to choose the correct word for the correct definition.

Questions: 23 | Attempts: 10274 | Last updated: Oct 11, 2025

Sample Question
What is the term for the skill of convincing someone using words and language techniques such as alliteration, metaphor, and other techniques?

Alliteration

Metaphor

Rhetorical

Allusion

Juxtapostion

AP English Test On Rhetorical Devices And Fallacies! Trivia Quiz

Welcome to AP English Language practice test on rhetorical devices and fallacies.

Questions: 22 | Attempts: 209 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025

Sample Question
Expletive

Is a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax, used to lend emphasis to the words immediately proximate to the _________. (We emphasize the words on each side of a pause or interruption in order to maintain continuity of the thought.)

Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list of items, ______ gives the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account:

Is the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. The rhetorical effect of ______, however, often shares with that of asyndeton a feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and building up.

Repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next. it can be generated in series for the sake of beauty or to give a sense of logical progression

Resembles anadiplosis in the repetition of a preceding word, but it repeats a key word (not just the last word) from a preceding phrase, clause, or sentence, at the beginning of the next.

Parts Of An Argument

Argument is part of the English curriculum where we try to understand how to go about an argument. This comes in handy to professions such as law. This in particular tests your knowledge on the parts of an argument.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 625 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025

Sample Question
Which is the conclusion in the following argument:Death penalty should be illegal. Murder is always wrong

Death penalty should be illegal.

Murder is always wrong.

Recent Debate & Discussion Quizzes

Eng 101 Argumentative Appeals

ENG 101 argumentative appeals

This ENG 101 quiz focuses on argumentative appeals, testing understanding of rhetorical strategies through real-world examples. Learners assess appeals to numbers, emotion, experience, values, and identify logical fallacies,...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 268 | Last updated: Mar 19, 2025

Sample Question
"You should vote for Senator Smith's tax relief bill. A recent survey shows that a majority of Americans support the bill." This is an appeal to...

Numbers

Experience

Values

Emotion

Loc Chapters 1 And 2 Quiz

LOC Chapters 1 and 2 Quiz

This is a quiz on Chapter 1 and 2 and 3 of the Language and Composition textbook. There are different kinds of questions. If the question has checkboxes, you should check all that are correct. Note: The...

Questions: 22 | Attempts: 746 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025

Sample Question
Which of the following completes the two blanks in the rhetorical triangle diagram?

Aristotle

Time period

Speaker

Subject

Occasion