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Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 25 (60 MCQs)

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1. "We Americans are a vast & quarrelsome family."Is this a metaphor?
2. What is the rhetorical device used in the sentence:'The car was as fast as lightning.'?
3. Which rhetorical device is used here? "Shopping is for girls is the same as oxygen for humans."
4. An appeal to logic and reason.Choose the rhetorical appeal that best fits the definition above.
5. In paragraph two, King states, "Five score years ago ..... " what type of rhetorical or literary device is this?
6. What is one of the strongest political and social tools?
7. When was the "I Have a Dream" speech given?
8. What is an oxymoron?
9. Define:Epistrophe
10. This form of rhetoric uses an expert or a celebrity
11. What rhetorical device is used in the following advertisement: "Come TV with us"
12. Which rhetorical device is used in this sentence? "Mobile phones as important as our lives."
13. Non-human objects or ideas are given human qualities.
14. What is Direct Address?
15. Why would a writer use juxtaposition?
16. Ethos is an argument based on
17. A reference to another text or assumed knowledge of a reference to a book, movie, the Bible or Greek Mythology
18. When using any rhetorical device, you are trying to ..... your audience.
19. The light danced on the water.
20. Name the rhetorical device."We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers ..... in English, Hebrew, and Arabic."
21. An unusual and extended comparison between two unlike things that is often witty is called a
22. A chip off the old block.
23. Making people feel they should do/buy/believe it because the "BEST" people do it.
24. Which of the following sentences uses an imperative verb?
25. The following excerpt contains an example of which rhetorical device?"Are they raising you up? Or pushing you down?Are they helping you grow? Or holding you back?"
26. What is the purpose of using hyperbole in advertising?
27. EASY come, EASY go.LIKE father, LIKE son.With GREAT power comes GREAT responsibility.
28. Point out how two or more people, places, or things are alike OR how they differ
29. What is the effect of using anaphora in a speech?
30. Which of the following is an example of alliteration:
31. A talking cucumber would be an example of which rhetorical device?
32. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite of what the writer intends to achieve a humorous effect or to add emphasis
33. A statement presented as true by an author or speaker.
34. A response to the counterargument that should address the flaws made in argument and prove why it is wrong is called the
35. The effect of ..... in a passage is to add emphasis and improve clarity
36. Adds balance and rhythm to sentences; connects ideas
37. When I was in high school, I was on the track team. We traveled all over the country for competitions.
38. Substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be hard or unpleasant.
39. Learning a new language is unlocking a secret door to another world.
40. A brief indirect reference ( to a person, event, object, time period, literary work)
41. The repetition of related ideas in the same grammatical structure
42. Strategic exaggeration or overstatement.
43. Using logos means appealing to a reader's sense of what
44. "I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers." ..... Langston HughesWhich technique is used prominently in the above line of Hughes' poem?
45. Which of the following is an example of litotes?
46. Presenting a topic as a problem and then relating the author's solution
47. The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
48. Making a point by asserting two words next to each other that are seemingly contradictory.
49. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of several words in close succession?
50. You shouldn't text and drive. Nearly 25% of all car accidents are caused by drivers using cell phones while driving.
51. The ocean heaved a sigh that sent the wave crashing on the shore
52. Containing facts, opinions, samples, and anecdotes to make ideas more concrete and to make generalizations more specific and detailed
53. What are questions called that are asked to make a point or to create a dramatic effect?
54. Author's attitude toward a subject/topic (examples:irritated, formal, objective, condescending, etc.)
55. What is imagery?
56. "She yawned gracefully in my face. 'Please come and see me ..... Phone book ..... Under the name of Mrs. Sigourney Howard ..... My aunt ..... ' She was hurrying off as she talked-her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted into her party at the door." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
57. I know I'm playing Cupid, but I think Bob and my cousin should spend more time together.
58. Antony:It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men.
59. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
60. The following excerpt most closely reflects which appeal?"So you can't call everybody your friend. The word FRIEND comes from an European word FREUND, meaning to love. These people they don't love you."
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