This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 18 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A) Simile. B) Anaphora. C) Paradox. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 2. OXYMORON A) A comparison between two things that uses like or as. B) A connection that is made between two things. C) The combination of two words of opposite meaning. D) Words that imitate the sound they describe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The combination of two words of opposite meaning. 3. Evaluate the persuasive technique in 'I am not a crook' by Richard Nixon. A) Nixon relies on emotional appeals to manipulate the audience. B) Nixon uses denial and assertion to establish credibility and evoke trust. C) Nixon admits to being a crook to gain sympathy. D) Nixon uses humor to distract from the accusations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nixon uses denial and assertion to establish credibility and evoke trust. 4. "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich" A) Antithesis. B) Anaphora. C) Hyperbole. D) Long sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 5. She wanted the lightness back, the confidence, the strength. A) Polysyndeton and tricolon. B) Asyndeton and tricolon. C) Parallel Structure and tricolon. D) Parallel Structure and climactic order. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asyndeton and tricolon. 6. What Rhetorical Appeal is used here? Heavy use of the internet may contribute to the international tendency toward breadth rather than depth of knowledge. Using those most essential skills-pointing and clicking-our brightest minds may now never encounter, much less read, the works of Aristotle, Shakespeare, or Steinbeck. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 7. What is a characteristic of a rhetorical question? A) It doesn't require a direct response. B) It confuses the audience. C) It's used for humor only. D) It requires an immediate answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It doesn't require a direct response. 8. This is a literary device that juxtaposes two or more similar syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same idea with slight modifications. A) Repetition. B) Parrelism. C) Repittion. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 9. To make a point a point by exaggerating is which of the following rhetorical devices? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 10. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:No guts, no glory. A) Epistrophe. B) Antithesis. C) Hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 11. For essay #2 on the AP exam, you'll be given a paragraph of background information and a persuasive text that can be in three different formats. What are these 3 formats? A) Editorial, speech, feature article. B) Speech, letter, article. C) Friendly letter, business letter, article. D) Commencement, eulogy, political speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speech, letter, article. 12. What is euphemism? A) Substitution of an agreeable expression. B) A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense. C) The expression of something contrary to the intended meaning. D) Special words or expressions used by a particular profession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Substitution of an agreeable expression. 13. When something is said to be like something else A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. Which rhetorical device is used in the sentence 'He is as brave as a lion'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. If someone threatens you, they are using fear to motivate you to do something. This is an example of: A) Understatement. B) Parallelism. C) Simile. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathos. 16. Complete the analogy.Page is to book as tree is to ..... A) Chips. B) Car. C) Forest. D) Library. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forest. 17. "Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance ..... that can assure a more fruitful life for mankind?" A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 18. What does an antithesis aim to achieve in a text or speech? A) To present two unrelated ideas. B) To confuse the audience. C) To contrast two opposing ideas. D) To provide a detailed description. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To contrast two opposing ideas. 19. In ethos, the writer or speaker presents himself to the audience as A) Honest. B) Dishonest. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Honest. 20. Hope for the best; prepare for the worst. A) Analogy. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Antithesis. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 21. What rhetorical device is being used in the statement:'As a doctor, I can assure you that this treatment is effective'? A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 22. Which literary device involves the repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 23. What does it mean to be a leader? It means to care about the people you lead, to always do what is best for the group, and to be the best role model you can be. A) Rhetorical Question. B) Repetition. C) Hyperbole. D) Hypophora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hypophora. 24. Visually descriptive or figurative language used to characterize objects by appealing to the physical senses A) Ellipsis. B) Diction. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. E) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 25. What is the purpose of using anaphora in a speech or text? A) To create a sense of urgency. B) To emphasize a point through repetition. C) To provide statistical evidence. D) To appeal to the audience's ethics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To emphasize a point through repetition. 26. The use of a mild or pleasant term or phrase in place of an unpleasant one. A) Personification. B) Euphemism. C) Irony. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euphemism. 27. All teenagers spend too much time on their phones. A) Direct address. B) Analogy. C) Sweeping generalization. D) Loaded language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sweeping generalization. 28. Which rhetorical device involves repeating words to make them stand out and be remembered? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 29. The following sentence is an example of which rhetorical device? "Mom, what if there is a gunman at school, and I have no way to communicate with you aside from my phone?" A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 30. Views the nature of an inanimate objects in a new way A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Diction. D) Allusion. 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