This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Rhetorical Devices – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Devices Quiz 12 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following best defines asterismos? A) A rhetorical device where one addresses the audience directly at the beginning of a speech. B) Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. C) The use of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural. D) Reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses for emphasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. 2. "Excuse me, am I interrupting you apparently more important conversation." What Rhetorical Device is shown? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Connotation. C) Imagery. D) Hypophoric Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 3. Creating an emotional or imaginative impact A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 4. Heavy description to help see what is going on A) Repetition. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 5. What is the term for a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration for emphasis or effect? A) Hyperbole. B) Litotes. C) Understatement. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 6. Match the definition to the rhetorical device:an illustrative story. A) Allusion. B) Ad hominem. C) Analogy. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdote. 7. A rhetorical device in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same form or modified, to emphasize a point A) Chiasmus. B) Litotes. C) Juxtaposition. D) Zeugma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmus. 8. '' I gradually gained a bit of satisfaction from being considered an extremist. Was not Jesus an extremist in love? ..... Will we be extremists for hate or extremists for love?This is an example of: A) Repetition. B) Anaphora. C) Metaphor. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 9. What could Symploce mean? What does the word mean? What does anything mean? A) More repetition. B) Repetition at the beginning and end of the sentences. C) Repetition$^{2}$. D) Mix of repetitions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition at the beginning and end of the sentences. 10. Parallelism Definition: A) Successive words, phrases, clauses expressed with the same or very similar grammatical structure. Can add balance and rhythm and, most importantly, emphasis to argument. B) Use of words with the same or similar meaning. C) The repetition of identical or similar syntactic elements (word, phrase, clause). D) Similar to antithesis in that it involves contradiction. It differs in that it brings together two contradictory terms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Successive words, phrases, clauses expressed with the same or very similar grammatical structure. Can add balance and rhythm and, most importantly, emphasis to argument. 11. The lyrics "Wack MCs like that orange soda get crushed" are an example of what rhetorical device? A) Alliteration. B) Mood. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 12. The ideas or feelings that a certain word creates; the feelings associatedwith a word A) Antithesis. B) Anaphora. C) Connotation. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 13. When an author refers to something from history, culture, or literature, and itis up to the reader to pick up on that reference and understand it A) Anecdote. B) Allegory. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 14. The use of many conjunctions A) Asyndeton. B) Polysyndeton. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polysyndeton. 15. Which rhetorical device is used in the phrase 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son'? A) Cacophony. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cacophony. 16. Which choice describes the purpose of using parallelism in a report? A) To compare unfamiliar ideas. B) To emphasize deadlines through repeated words. C) To organize content numerically. D) To enhance clarity by repeating grammatical structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To enhance clarity by repeating grammatical structure. 17. Which rhetorical device is used to create a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'? A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 18. Which rhetorical device is used in the phrase 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen'? A) Alliteration. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Amplification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 19. "calling a businessman a suit"What Rhetorical Device is shown? A) Metaphor. B) Description. C) Metonymy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 20. (during a storm) "My what nice weather we're having."What Rhetorical Device is shown? A) Irony. B) Anecdote. C) Description. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 21. A type of euphemism that intentionally understates the size or importance of its subject. It can be used to dismiss or diminish a debate opponent's argument. A) Anacoluthon. B) Apophasis. C) Meiosis. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meiosis. 22. Refers to a person, event, or thing in history, a work of literature, or culture A) Parallelism. B) Symbolism. C) Repetition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 23. "you may take a long vacation ..... (soon she will die)"What Rhetorical Device is shown? A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Euphemisms. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemisms. 24. The following excerpt most closely reflects which appeal?"Oprah said:Everybody wants to ride with you in the limo, but what about when that limo breaks down, and it's cold. Who's going to be there with you on the side of the road? Who's gonna be there to carry your bags with you as you gotta walk home?" A) Ethos (Ethics-Credibility). B) Pathos (Emotions-Feelings). C) Logos (Logic-Facts). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos (Ethics-Credibility). 25. Listing a series of possibilities and then explaining why all but one of those possibilities are not good. A) Hypophora. B) Asterismos. C) Expeditio. D) Antiphrasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expeditio. 26. Identify the rhetorical device in the following sentence: "I came, I saw, I conquered." A) Tricolon. B) Asyndeton. C) Epistrophe. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asyndeton. 27. What is an ellipse? A) The use of words that sound like the noises they describe. B) The omission of essential grammatical elements or parts of the sentence. C) The repetition of an initial sound in a sequence of words. D) An implicit comparison between different things or ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The omission of essential grammatical elements or parts of the sentence. 28. Rhetorical devices are techniques used to convey ideas through? A) Speech or writing. B) Physical movements. C) Intense staring. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speech or writing. 29. Connecting and identifying with audience members by making them laugh. A) Anaphora. B) Humor. C) Meiosis. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humor. 30. "Now it's your turn to cry; cry me a river" A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoiea. 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