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Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 40 (30 MCQs)

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1. Which rhetorical device is used when a speaker directly addresses the audience?
2. When a writer includes EVERYONE or EVERYTHING into one category
3. What's the Rhetorical Device?The process of creating a word that mimics a sound and using it to describe that sound
4. Why is it important to balance all three rhetorical appeals in a persuasive piece?
5. An ethical appeal to establish credibility and trust.Choose the rhetorical appeal that best fits the definition above.
6. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following sentence:She's older than dirt.
7. "Implied though not plainly expressed" is the definition of .....
8. The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a successive phrases, clauses, or lines
9. Death crept in without a word and stole what was most dear to me
10. "Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not."
11. What is the term for a reference to a person, place, or event, especially from literature, history, or the Bible? These references can be direct or indirect.
12. Persuading by appealing to the audience's emotions-Ex. "Choose our security system because no price is too much to pay for peace of mind."
13. The use of words that sound like the noise they describe, such as buzz, crash, hiss, growl, thump, or swish.
14. An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work
15. What Greek philosopher discussed the theorem that there are three means of persuasion in the 4th century BC?
16. Which rhetorical device is the video?
17. A brief story about something that happened to the speaker, usually something funny or interesting
18. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following statement:"Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country."
19. "our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, are constants in our character." Barack Obama, Inauguration AddressThis quote is an example of
20. Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence 'The silence was a heavy weight on my chest'?
21. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ..... " excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. This is an example of ..... ?
22. Comparing two things or instances in time often based on their structure and used to explain a complex idea in simpler terms
23. Identify the term for the combination of contrasting words.
24. A text that persuades the reader to the writer's point of view
25. Deliberately de-emphasizing something in order to downplay its importance
26. "Time is a thief."
27. Adds emphasis; creates dramatic effect
28. Seven sea shells down by the sea shore is an example of .....
29. If multiple meanings of a word are used, or the meaning of a particular word or phrase is not clear it has:
30. States what a rhetor is trying to prove
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