Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 7 (30 MCQs)

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1. A word that imitates the sound it refers to
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.
3. What comprises the best argument?
4. Asking questions to your reader that do not need an answer
5. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence: "Speech is silver, but silence is gold."
6. Anytime you see that a celebrity is being used in a commercial, what rhetoric can you assume is being used?
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?
8. Definition for:Antimetabole (an-tee-meh-TA-boe-lee)
9. Which of the following is an example of a rhetorical device?
10. The "target 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?
12. Identify the metaphor
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?
14. What is the definition of allusion?
15. Comparison using "like" or "as." Example: "She was as quiet as a mouse."
16. Which of the following is a Hyperbole?
17. An appeal to emotions is an appeal to .....
18. Which rhetorical device refers to emotions or passion?
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."
20. Excerpt:"This tax is a burden on hard-working families."-UnknownWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote?
21. Identify the rhetorical device in the following sentence:'She sells sea shells by the sea shore.'
22. Casually referencing something that is well known
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."
24. If you want your audience to feel scared in order to encourage them to make change based on your argument, you should use .....
25. If an argument is coherent it
26. Which of the following is NOT an element of ethos?
27. Which symbol represents pathos?
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."
29. She is worried because the more she sleeps, the more tired she feels in the morning instead of waking up well rested.
30. Repetition of the initial consonant sounds beginning several words in sequence