This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 15 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground." -Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address A) Euphemism. B) Parallelism. C) Anaphora. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 2. What is the primary purpose of using rhetorical questions in a speech or text? A) To provide an answer. B) To engage the audience and provoke thought. C) To confuse the audience. D) To summarize the main points. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To engage the audience and provoke thought. 3. Ethos is a rhetorical device that ..... A) Is ineffective because it is supported by social pressure to be like everyone else. B) Makes a conclusion on an entire group based on a small, unreasonable example. C) Bases an argument on a good character or the ethics of an authority figure. D) Switches the subject in order to draw attention away from the true issue in an argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bases an argument on a good character or the ethics of an authority figure. 4. You need to take responsibility for protecting the environment. A) Direct address. B) Analogy. C) Sweeping generalization. D) Loaded language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct address. 5. "I would travel a thousand miles to see you tonight." -Vanessa CarltonThis is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Assonance. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 6. What is the definition of logos? A) A logical appeal. B) An emotional appeal. C) An appeal that helps to build the author's credibility with the audience. D) The author's choice of words to create tone, mood, imagery, etc. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A logical appeal. 7. When an author uses YOU in their writing to connect You to their topic A) Loaded language. B) Rhetorical questions. C) Direct address. D) Sweeping generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct address. 8. "Not as a call to battle, though embattled we are ..... A) Antithesis. B) Parallelism. C) Pathos. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 9. In a debate competition, Anika uses rhetorical devices. What is the main purpose of her using these devices? A) To talk directly to the audience. B) To ask obvious questions to her opponents. C) To enhance her arguments and communicate her viewpoints effectively. D) To show similarities and differences between her points and those of Charlotte and Scarlett. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To enhance her arguments and communicate her viewpoints effectively. 10. What is a rhetorical question? A) A question asked for effect with no answer expected. B) A question that has only one possible answer. C) A question that is irrelevant to the discussion. D) A question that leads to an argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A question asked for effect with no answer expected. 11. What is an allusion? A) A short summary of an event; a story told to back up a point. B) A speaker or character who tells a story. C) A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work. D) The difference between expectation and result. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work. 12. Comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as" A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 13. ALLUSION A) The intentional repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line for emphasis. B) The repetition of words at the end of a line. C) Successive words, phrases, clauses expressed with the same or very similar grammatical structure. D) A brief reference to a famous person or event-often from literature, history, Greek myth, or the Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A brief reference to a famous person or event-often from literature, history, Greek myth, or the Bible. 14. When your friend is trying to convince you to do something and he says, "Come on, what's the worst that could happen?" he's using what kind of rhetorical device to try to convince you? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 15. "I have a dream ..... " is an example of A) Charged words. B) Allusion. C) Restatement. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 16. Excerpt:"Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country."-John F. KennedyWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote? A) Loaded Language. B) Parallelism. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 17. Name the rhetorical device. "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress." A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Understatement. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 18. What is the definition of REPETITION? A) Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis. B) Appeal to credibility/trust. C) A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. D) A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis. 19. Which rhetorical device should you NOT use in a formal, argumentative essay? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Athos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 20. This appeal represents credibility or an ethical appeal, which involves persuasion by the character involved A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 21. Which appeal does this quote use? "I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers" (King). A) Mythos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 22. Please select which rhetorical device you believe the answer below displays.She was a dandelion in the wind, searching for a place to land. A) Rhetorical Question. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 23. Please give me the day off. My grandmother died, and I really need to go spend time with my family. They need me to support them during this terrible time. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 24. Levine: "I saw the board. You got four ..... "Williamson:(interrupting) "I've got Roma."~ David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross A) Hyperbation. B) Antithesis. C) Euphemism. D) Aposiopepsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aposiopepsis. 25. The definition of ALLITERATION is ..... A) Extreme exaggeration. B) Repetition of consonant sounds. C) Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other. D) A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition of consonant sounds. 26. Which element of a text is most closely related to its structure? A) Theme. B) Plot. C) Setting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 27. A question asked to achieve a particular effect rather than to seek an answer is an example of a A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 28. Words or phrases that aren't meant to be taken literally A) Anecdote. B) Proverb. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 29. Using a part to name the whole, or using the name of one thing for that of another associated with it. Example:Lakewood scored the winning goal. A) Chiasmus. B) Irony. C) Metonymy. D) Asyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 30. Any attempt to appeal to the intellect. Facts and statistics. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. 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