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Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 19 (60 MCQs)

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1. The use a short story to create a memorable image in the reader's mind
2. Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, or problems.
3. Instruction to the audience to cause an immediate response (ex:Call now! Vote for me!)
4. Sophia, Grace, and Liam are having a debate. Liam says, 'An understatement is the intentional lessening of the importance of a major thing or event.' Do you agree with Liam?
5. When a writer appeals to the emotions of the intended audience to excite and involve them in the argument.
6. Which rhetorical appeal is defined as an appeal to the audience's emotions through the use of emotional language?
7. What is the term for verbal irony?
8. Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence 'Love is a rose'?
9. Which rhetorical appeal focuses on using logic, reasoning, and evidence?
10. What Rhetorical Appeal is used here? "If you're still unsure, please consider that my advanced degree and awards for my work speak for themselves."
11. Evaluate the use of logos in: "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." -Mahatma Gandhi
12. "The student was a sea of troubles."
13. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. T
14. The repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence-Ex. "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe ..... ''
15. "When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative"
16. METONYMY is .....
17. In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal, " the use of specific statistics about poor children is an example of:
18. A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer is called:
19. What is the term for a rhetorical device that uses a part of something to represent the whole?
20. Identify the appeal in the following:Tiger Woods endorses Nike.
21. Which of the following is an example of antithesis?
22. Which rhetorical device is used to express irony through language?
23. Richard Dawkins, internationally known biologist and author, said, "Biology is the study of the complex things in the Universe. Physics is the study of the simple ones."
24. "You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard."Does this example show "The Rule of 3?"
25. Appeals to reader's ethically by using expert opinions or credible sources.
26. You should get this product now before it sells out. You might miss your opportunity.
27. It is an argument that distracts you from the real issue.
28. A claim is a speaker's ..... on a problem or .....
29. I have served this community for 10 years now. Vote for me!I send my own children to the same schools as yours. Vote for me!I will work to improve our roads, fund new businesses, and improve our town. Vote for me!
30. "Isn't it amazing how quickly time flies?"
31. She sells sea shells by the sea shore, is an example of .....
32. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following statement:"Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get."
33. Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical device?
34. Asking a question with an obvious answer
35. The comparison of two or more unlike things.-equates
36. Which rhetorical device refers to ethics and the image of a person?
37. The sentence "I'll love you 'til the ocean is folded and hung up to dry and the seven stars go squawking like geese about the sky, " is an example of which rhetorical device (not simile or metaphor)?
38. If someone purchased a new car and announced, "I just bought a new set of wheels!" that is an example of .....
39. We want to include rhetorical devices in our writing.
40. What literary device is used to give human characteristics to non-human objects or abstract ideas?
41. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."This quote contains a(n) .....
42. Where was the speech given?
43. Rhetoric is the powerful use of language
44. Excerpt:"A pilot with a fear of heights."-UnknownWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote?
45. "Hope for the best; prepare for the worst" is an example of
46. Complimenting your audience
47. What technique is employed in the following example?Angel asked, "How can we live in a world without death metal?"
48. Words or phrases that have strong positive or negative connotations
49. A complex metaphor or extended simile, a comparison between two similar things
50. Which rhetorical device is used when a speaker directly addresses the audience?
51. When a writer includes EVERYONE or EVERYTHING into one category
52. What's the Rhetorical Device?The process of creating a word that mimics a sound and using it to describe that sound
53. Why is it important to balance all three rhetorical appeals in a persuasive piece?
54. An ethical appeal to establish credibility and trust.Choose the rhetorical appeal that best fits the definition above.
55. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:She's older than dirt.
56. "Implied though not plainly expressed" is the definition of .....
57. The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a successive phrases, clauses, or lines
58. Death crept in without a word and stole what was most dear to me
59. "Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not."
60. What is the term for a reference to a person, place, or event, especially from literature, history, or the Bible? These references can be direct or indirect.
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