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Rhetorical Devices Quiz 11 (30 MCQs)

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1. Who wouldn't want to be a millionaire?
2. Asking a question and then answering your own question
3. "Indianapolis wins the super bowl by 14 points."What Rhetorical Device is shown?
4. Amplification. What is this word?
5. The attribution of human characteristics to non-human things
6. Who defined the concepts of logos, pathos and ethos?
7. A sudden swerve into a seemingly unrelated idea in the middle of a sentence.
8. What rhetorical device or strategy is NOT present here:When I was in college, a close friend of mine was a chronic smoker, and it was heartbreaking to see how it affected his health and our friendship. It would help him relieve some stress but in the end, it damaged his lungs beyond repair. This taught me that indulging a moment of pleasure can lead to a lifetime of pain.
9. What does Epistrophe mean?
10. Presents the false assumption that there are only two possibilities (think:either/or)
11. Works by moving from a seemingly benign premise or starting point and working through a number of small steps to an improbable extreme
12. Tone is a rhetorical device in which the writer or speaker?
13. What is the main focus of logos as a rhetorical device?
14. "If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
15. Repeated phrases used over and over in a speech to drive a point home
16. Appeal to logic. Ex:Numbers, statistics, percentages, graphs, etc.
17. Match the definition to the rhetorical device:the use of repeated grammatical form to emphasize a point.
18. "My life has been a ship sailing sea to sea."
19. The reason for writing
20. Which rhetorical device involves asking a question to make a point rather than to get an answer?
21. Information and data, that can be proved to be true
22. "This test was forever long."What Rhetorical Device is shown?
23. A joking use of a word sounding the same as another
24. Match the definition to the rhetorical device:an implicit reference to something.
25. Give an example of pathos in a sentence.
26. You should really try these baked Cheetos. They have 500 calories less than the regular Cheetos. In fact, they have 700 fewer calories than french fries.
27. The repetition of a word or phrase
28. Which rhetorical device involves placing two contrasting elements side by side to highlight their differences?
29. Which term describes a speaker's credibility or trustworthiness?
30. The use of the same word at the end of one sentence and at the beginning of the subsequent sentence, forming a chain of thought that carries your audience to the point you've chosen.
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