This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 7 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A word that imitates the sound it refers to A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 2. The dark sky threatened as the icy blasts of winder rattled the windows, while inside the family sat peacefully in the warm glow of the log fire. A) Rhetorical question. B) Juxtaposition. C) Oxymoron. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juxtaposition. 3. What comprises the best argument? A) Logos only. B) Pathos only. C) Ethos only. D) Combination of logos, pathos, and ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Combination of logos, pathos, and ethos. 4. Asking questions to your reader that do not need an answer A) Rhetorical questions. B) Loaded language. C) Direct Address. D) Sweeping Generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical questions. 5. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence: "Speech is silver, but silence is gold." A) Apposition. B) Epistrophe. C) Anaphora. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 6. Anytime you see that a celebrity is being used in a commercial, what rhetoric can you assume is being used? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 7. "I have a dream that four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character" (King 5).This is an example of what rhetorical technique? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 8. Definition for:Antimetabole (an-tee-meh-TA-boe-lee) A) Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. B) Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance. C) Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. 9. Which of the following is an example of a rhetorical device? A) Metaphor. B) Plot. C) Setting. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 10. The "target audience" A) Pathos. B) Repetition. C) Intended Audience. D) Call to action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intended Audience. 11. Lily, Avery, and Evelyn are playing a game of 'Grammar Guru'. Evelyn just used a technique called 'asyndeton'. Can you guess what it is? A) Did Evelyn remove conjunctions from a sentence?. B) Is it a question that Evelyn intended to be answered?. C) Did Evelyn imitate something with the intent to poke fun at it?. D) Did Evelyn use harsh sounds in language?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Did Evelyn remove conjunctions from a sentence?. 12. Identify the metaphor A) My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments. B) My heart is a muscle. C) My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body. D) My heart is like a muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments. 13. In paragraph two, King makes this statement, "This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope ..... " This is an example of what? A) Repetition. B) Rhetorical question. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 14. What is the definition of allusion? A) An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. B) An emotional appeal. C) The author's feelings or attitude about something, someone, or the reader. D) A logical appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. 15. Comparison using "like" or "as." Example: "She was as quiet as a mouse." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Rhetorical question. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. Which of the following is a Hyperbole? A) Life is your restaurant. B) I'm so hungry I could eat a whole elephant. C) Cause, baby, you're a firework. D) We must be swift as the coursing river. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I'm so hungry I could eat a whole elephant. 17. An appeal to emotions is an appeal to ..... A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 18. Which rhetorical device refers to emotions or passion? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 19. Which of the following rhetorical devices can be seen in the following excerpt: "We will rise from the golden hills of the west. We will rise from the windswept northeast ..... We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities." A) Paradox. B) Parallelism. C) Anastrophe. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 20. Excerpt:"This tax is a burden on hard-working families."-UnknownWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote? A) Analogy. B) Loaded Language. C) Irony. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loaded Language. 21. Identify the rhetorical device in the following sentence:'She sells sea shells by the sea shore.' A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 22. Casually referencing something that is well known A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 23. Which rhetorical device is used: "My client has been an upstanding member of society and has never been in trouble before this incident. This was a one-time incident, your honor." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 24. If you want your audience to feel scared in order to encourage them to make change based on your argument, you should use ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) A professional speaker. D) Call to action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 25. If an argument is coherent it A) Is clear and intelligible. B) Are logically arranged. C) Have understandable sentence structure. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 26. Which of the following is NOT an element of ethos? A) References to shared beliefs. B) Explanations of personal authority. C) Use of emotional language. D) Grammatically correct writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use of emotional language. 27. Which symbol represents pathos? A) Heart. B) Hand. C) Head. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heart. 28. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 29. She is worried because the more she sleeps, the more tired she feels in the morning instead of waking up well rested. A) PARADOX. B) PARALLELISM. C) HYPERBOLE. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PARADOX. 30. Repetition of the initial consonant sounds beginning several words in sequence A) Alliteration. B) Antithesis. C) Ethos. D) Euphamism. 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