This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 25 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An umbrella term for simile and metaphor. A) Imagery. B) Juxtaposition. C) Repetition. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 2. A rhetorical question ..... A) Requires and answer. B) Does not require an answer. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Does not require an answer. 3. Students should be required to wear uniforms because it allows everyone to fit in since everyone is wearing the same thing. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 4. "I came, I saw, I conquered." ..... Julius CaesarThis quote's main rhetorical device in use is A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 5. Identify the rhetorical device in this statement: "I must be cruel to be kind." A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Paradox. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 6. Telling a story in order to support a thesis A) Problem/solution. B) Contrast/juxtaposition. C) Narration. D) Cause and/or effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narration. 7. What literary device is used to create a special effect or feeling by making some type of interesting or creative comparison? A) Irony. B) Metonymy. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 8. Which rhetorical device is used in this sentence? "Children should shake free from their helicopter parents and prove they have grown up." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. At the end of Toy Story 3 we see an adorable snippet of the infamous "balcony scene" with a hedgehog as Romeo and a Little Green Man as Juliet. He quotes, "But soft what light through yonder window breaks, " and the LGM quotes, "Romeo, oh Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo." This snippet is an example of A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Parallelism. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 10. A student says, "Vote for Jane! She's kind-hearted and respectable. She's also in the Pep Squad!" Which rhetorical device does the student use? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 11. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:They don't exactly have an ordinary relationship. A) Apposition. B) Anaphora. C) Hyperbole. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Litotes. 12. Repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis A) Anaphora. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 13. What is literally meant by a "rhetorical analysis" essay? A) Read and annotate a persuasive text. B) Breaking an effective persuasive text into parts. C) Being able to identify rhetorical strategies. D) Creating a 2.4 essay to analyze the writer's theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Breaking an effective persuasive text into parts. 14. "This policy is a plague on our city, a cancer to our way of life" contains an example of A) Parallelism. B) Metaphor. C) Charged words. D) Restatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charged words. 15. "Tis but a scratch" is an example of a(n) ..... A) Rhetorical Question. B) Euphemism. C) Allusion. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 16. A factual statement is: A) Based on personal beliefs or opinions. B) A statement that can be proven true or false. C) Influenced by emotions or feelings. D) Always true, regardless of evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A statement that can be proven true or false. 17. Antony:Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 18. Fill in the blank: "The associations people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition. Many words have ..... that create emotions or feelings in the reader." A) Allusions. B) Hyperboles. C) Connotations. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotations. 19. "We pledge" -this phrase repeated six times throughout a passage to emphasize honor and unity A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 20. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:'The pen is mightier than the sword.' A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metonymy. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 21. The following statement is an example of: "You have no idea what you're talking about; you've only lived here for six months." A) Slippery Slope. B) Ad Hominem. C) False Dilemma. D) Hasty Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ad Hominem. 22. What is an explicit comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as' called? A) Understatement. B) Sarcasm. C) Simile. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 23. I'm currently between jobs, but I'm sure I'll find something soon. A) Analogy. B) Alliteration. C) Euphamism. D) Loaded word. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphamism. 24. Since 87% more wrecks happen when people text and drive, stricter laws need to be put in place regarding texting and driving. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 25. What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne ..... " A) Antithesis. B) Parallelism. C) Apposition. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 26. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote: "His tender heir might bear his memory" (Shakespeare). A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 27. Putting two contrasting elements together that are unalike: A) Understatement. B) Metaphor. C) Juxtaposition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 28. What rhetorical appeal is primarily concerned with the logical structure and evidence of an argument? A) Kairos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 29. When you repeat yourself over and over what rhetorical device are you using? A) Ethos. B) Repetition. C) Oxymoron. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 30. The rose in Tupac's poem was a metaphor for ..... A) Going against the norm and individualism. B) Growing flowers in a weird place. C) Nothing. D) Running away from problems. 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