This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 10 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What literary device involves repeating a word, phrase, line, or stanza multiple times to emphasize something? A) Rebuttal. B) Repetition. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 2. Reference to something (literature, current events, etc.) outside the work itself A) Charged words. B) Allusion. C) Antithesis. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 3. The smell of his cologne weighed heavily upon my skin and filled my mouth with a pungent taste. A) Synesthesia. B) Idiom. C) Allegory. D) Aphorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synesthesia. 4. What is the purpose of repetition and parallelism? A) To show the similarities between two things. B) To create an image. C) To emphasize a point. D) To give an example. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To emphasize a point. 5. Which literary device is shown in the lyric: "Seventeen and we got a dream to have a family, a house and everything in between. Suddenly, we turn Twenty-three, pressure for taking our life more seriously, We got our dead-end jobs and got bills to pay" (Blanco, Halsey, Khalid). A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Juxtaposition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 6. Which of the following is another example of ASYNDETON? A) I ate, I slept, I woke up. B) I ran, I jumped, I danced. C) I came, I saw, I left. D) I came, I saw, I conquered. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I came, I saw, I conquered. 7. Identify the appeal in the following:A 32-oz. bottle of Tide holds enough to wash 32 loads. A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 8. The following is an example of which rhetorical device?Bill is a cheerful pessimist. A) Irony. B) Oxymoron. C) Paradox. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 9. What is another goal of persuasion? A) To move others not to take action. B) To move other to take action. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To move other to take action. 10. Making a statement that seems self-contradictory or impossible but actually makes sense A) Oxymoron. B) Allusion. C) Satire. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 11. In ethos, the writer or speaker presents himself or herself as A) Trustworthy. B) Untrustworthy. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trustworthy. 12. A repeated use of words or phases for emphasis A) Personification. B) Euphemism. C) Irony. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 13. "This is the best band because they make the best music!" This statement is an example of which logical fallacy? A) Anecdote. B) Loaded Language. C) Bandwagon Approval. D) Circular Reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Circular Reasoning. 14. Which term describes the repetition of the first word or phrase in successive sentences? A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Asyndeton. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 15. Which rhetorical device is used when comparing two things by saying one thing is another thing? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. Which rhetorical device is used to give human characteristics to non-human things? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 17. ..... is the art of persuasive speaking or writing. A) Persuasion. B) Rhetoric. C) Manipulation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetoric. 18. Giving human qualities to an inanimate object ..... A) Parallelism. B) Concrete. C) Audience contact. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 19. The effect of ..... in a passage is to add an "echoing" or resounding effect A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 20. Connecting two ideas by contrasting them, when one idea is used as a reference point for a contrasting one. A) ANTITHESIS. B) HYPERBOLE. C) SIMILE. D) METAPHOR. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ANTITHESIS. 21. Identify the rhetorical device:There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" A) Parallelism. B) Rhetorical question. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 22. Do you want to feel like you are picking for bugs under your skin? Well, then don't do Meth. Rotten teeth, skin soars, and possible death await you if you do. A) Parallel structure. B) Ethos. C) Parallel structure and rhetorical question. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallel structure and rhetorical question. 23. What does it mean to make an inference in reading comprehension? A) To directly state what is happening in the text. B) To guess without any textual evidence. C) To draw a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning from the text. D) To rewrite the text in your own words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To draw a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning from the text. 24. Writing or speaking in order to persuade or convince. A) Author's purpose. B) Claim. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 25. True or false:figurative language should be interpreted literally. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 26. The following excerpt is mostly an example of what type of language?"It's better to walk alone at night than with a fake friend in the light. Better an enemy attack you than a fake friend hugs you." A) Colloquial. B) Formal. C) Loaded. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loaded. 27. Which statement is an example of a Red Herring (shifting focus away from) fallacy? A) "The earth is round because it has been proven by scientists.". B) "We should not focus on climate change because there are more pressing issues like unemployment.". C) "The car is red because it was painted that way.". D) "The book is interesting because it has a lot of pages.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "We should not focus on climate change because there are more pressing issues like unemployment.". 28. Lesson-26:Analyzing Rhetorical DevicesQuestion 10:A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is which of the following rhetorical devices? A) Simile. B) Invective. C) Analogy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 29. 'Life is a roller-coaster.'is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 30. "That's as useful as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic" A) Metaphor. B) Analogy. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesRhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 1Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 2Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 3Rhetorical 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