Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 38 (30 MCQs)

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1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
2. Is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason, providing facts.
3. " ..... it takes a family; it takes teachers; it takes clergy; it takes business people; it takes community leaders; it takes those who protect our health and safety. It takes all of us." This excerpt includes repetition of a group of words at the beginning of phrases. It is a technique called:
4. "pretty ugly" and "same difference" are both examples of which rhetorical device?
5. "The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe."
6. Identify the appeal in the following:A commercial shows an image of a happy couple riding in a Corvette.
7. The use a short story to create a memorable image in the reader's mind
8. Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, or problems.
9. Instruction to the audience to cause an immediate response (ex:Call now! Vote for me!)
10. Sophia, Grace, and Liam are having a debate. Liam says, 'An understatement is the intentional lessening of the importance of a major thing or event.' Do you agree with Liam?
11. When a writer appeals to the emotions of the intended audience to excite and involve them in the argument.
12. Identify the correct rhetorical device based on this definition:a type of alliteration that repeats the same vowel sound in two or more words
13. Which of the following is an example of a rhetorical question?
14. Which rhetorical appeal is defined as an appeal to the audience's emotions through the use of emotional language?
15. What is the term for verbal irony?
16. Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence 'Love is a rose'?
17. Which rhetorical appeal focuses on using logic, reasoning, and evidence?
18. What Rhetorical Appeal is used here? "If you're still unsure, please consider that my advanced degree and awards for my work speak for themselves."
19. Evaluate the use of logos in: "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." -Mahatma Gandhi
20. "The student was a sea of troubles."
21. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. T
22. The repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence-Ex. "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe ..... ''
23. "When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative"
24. METONYMY is .....
25. In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal, " the use of specific statistics about poor children is an example of:
26. A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer is called:
27. What is the term for a rhetorical device that uses a part of something to represent the whole?
28. Identify the appeal in the following:Tiger Woods endorses Nike.
29. Which of the following is an example of antithesis?
30. Which rhetorical device is used to express irony through language?