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Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 17 (30 MCQs)

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1. Which rhetorical appeal is primarily concerned with the logical structure and evidence of an argument?
2. What is a 'fallacy'?
3. Drive a hard bargain
4. What is a technique that speakers/authors use to persuade their audience?
5. I stayed home from school today because I was sick as a dog
6. In the sentence 'The pen is mightier than the sword, ' which rhetorical device is being used?
7. A comparison to one situation to another situation ("I need my phone like fish needs WATER!")
8. "Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in shock."Is this juxtaposition?
9. Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
10. A writer's words are his paintbrush.
11. Identify the simile
12. ..... means:a repeated grammatical pattern
13. A commercial for the new iPhone compares it to the previous model, showing all the ways in which the new one is better. Which rhetorical device is used?
14. If I try to explain something by associating it with something more familiar to you, I am making an
15. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. "-William Shakespeare
16. "I have never done anything wrong ever in my entire life."~ Mona Lisa Saperstein
17. Boom Clap by Charlie XCXBoom clap / The sound of my heartthe beat goes / on and on and on and on and .....
18. When you mention something or someone well known from history, literature, politics, or pop culture (TV, Movies, YouTube, etc).
19. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"
20. Evaluate the persuasive technique in 'I am not a crook' by Richard Nixon.
21. "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich"
22. She wanted the lightness back, the confidence, the strength.
23. What Rhetorical Appeal is used here? Heavy use of the internet may contribute to the international tendency toward breadth rather than depth of knowledge. Using those most essential skills-pointing and clicking-our brightest minds may now never encounter, much less read, the works of Aristotle, Shakespeare, or Steinbeck.
24. What is a characteristic of a rhetorical question?
25. This is a literary device that juxtaposes two or more similar syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same idea with slight modifications.
26. To make a point a point by exaggerating is which of the following rhetorical devices?
27. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:No guts, no glory.
28. For essay #2 on the AP exam, you'll be given a paragraph of background information and a persuasive text that can be in three different formats. What are these 3 formats?
29. What is euphemism?
30. When something is said to be like something else
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