This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following best describes the tone of a piece of writing? A) The overall feeling or atmosphere that the text evokes in the reader. B) The writer's attitude towards the subject or audience. C) The structured sequence of events in the text. D) The explicit meaning of the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The writer's attitude towards the subject or audience. 2. A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices? A) Rhetorical question. B) Allusion. C) Repetition. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 3. "Mom, did you know that, according to newsweek.com, having a cell phone at school does not lead to lower grades. A study of 1, 700 high school students found that there is absolutely no correlation between these two things. I can have my phone without my grades suffering." A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 4. What is the term for the group of people who will read, hear, see, or feel a piece of writing or performance? A) Author's Purpose. B) Rhetoric. C) Ethos. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Audience. 5. Which of the following words is the closest synonym for "wry" ? A) Opinionated. B) Humorous. C) Sarcastic. D) Bitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarcastic. 6. What are some strategies/devices that you could write about regardless of the text you encounter on exam day? A) Use of famous examples, imagery, use of unusual syntax. B) Allusion, juxtaposition, plain folks appeal. C) Figurative language, symbolism, comparisons. D) Contrast, emphasis, diction, appeals, organizational format. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contrast, emphasis, diction, appeals, organizational format. 7. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas A) Antithesis. B) Climax. C) Apostrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 8. She is quick like a cat. I never know when she arrives A) Analogy. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Antithesis. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 9. "passive aggressive, " "same difference, " "clearly confused, " "alone together" A) Understatement. B) Euphemism. C) Juxtaposition. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 10. What is Direct Address in writing? A) Using logic to persuade. B) Comparing two different things. C) Speaking directly to the reader or audience. D) Asking a question without expecting an answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaking directly to the reader or audience. 11. What is the purpose of using euphemism in a text? A) To use a mild or pleasant word instead of an unpleasant or offensive one. B) To emphasize something. C) To simplify complex ideas. D) To add balance and rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To use a mild or pleasant word instead of an unpleasant or offensive one. 12. Smoking around kids is dangerous because the defenseless children are exposed to dangerous chemicals that can lead to coughing and difficulty breathing and could even lead to deadly asthma attacks. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 13. What is the definition of ethos? A) Appeal to the credibility/trustworthiness of the speaker. B) Something an author uses to make the subject interesting to the reader and to grab the reader's attention. C) Appeal to Appeal to the emotions of the audience. D) Appeal to logic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to the credibility/trustworthiness of the speaker. 14. Rhetorical Devices are techniques that writers use to ..... their arguments and communicate more effectively. A) Enhance. B) Prove. C) Tell. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enhance. 15. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote: "He's as strong as an ox." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. The methods, incidents, speech, etc., an author uses to reveal the people in the book. A) Pathos. B) Characterization. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characterization. 17. A testimonial ..... A) Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. B) Can be proven as fact; strongest evidence; can be true, hard information presented as a percentage to survey-type information. C) Relies on quotes from experts or leading authorities in related fields that support the author's thesis. D) Encourages an emotional response from the audience to support the claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relies on quotes from experts or leading authorities in related fields that support the author's thesis. 18. Words and language that help authors persuade readers A) Rhetorical device. B) Exaggeration. C) Assumptions. D) Logical fallacies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical device. 19. The act of addressing someone or something that is absent or dead as if it were alive, present, and capable of responding. A) Apostrophe. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 20. "John told the children about World War I, " said the narrator. A) REPETITION. B) ALLUSION. C) METAPHOR. D) IMAGERY. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ALLUSION. 21. Repeating the structure of speech A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Analogy. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 22. Identify the rhetorical devices used in the following sentence:Where affections bear rule, their reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued. A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Antithesis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistrophe. 23. Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence 'The pen is mightier than the sword'? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 24. Using irony to mock something or to show contempt A) Anecdote. B) Euphemism. C) Connotation. D) Sarcasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sarcasm. 25. What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?Anyone who cherishes life in all its forms could not help being outraged by the mistreatment of laboratory animals. The so-called scientists who run the labs are evil. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 26. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" ~ Shylock, The Merchant of Venice A) Synecdoche. B) Rhetorical question. C) Apostrophe. D) Extended metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 27. The quote "The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened her mouth under them" is an example of: A) Logos. B) Syllogism. C) Ethos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 28. Words that carry strong emotional connotations A) Metonymy. B) Allusion. C) Charged words. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charged words. 29. A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 30. What rhetorical appeal is used here:"So here are just a few statistics on the human toll of illegal immigration. According to a 2011 government report, the arrests attached to the criminal alien population included an estimated 25, 000 people for homicide, 42, 000 for robbery ..... " A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 1Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 2Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 4Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 5Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 6Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 7Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 8Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books