This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 44 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 44 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An opposing view that awakens or invades a rhetor's claim A) Antithesis. B) Counterclaim. C) Claim. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Counterclaim. 2. How does an appeal to logos differ from an appeal to pathos in persuasive writing? A) Logos relies on emotional manipulation, while pathos uses logical reasoning. B) Logos uses statistical evidence, while pathos focuses on ethical considerations. C) Logos appeals to the audience's logic and reasoning, while pathos targets the audience's emotions. D) There is no significant difference between logos and pathos in persuasive writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos appeals to the audience's logic and reasoning, while pathos targets the audience's emotions. 3. Which literary device involves a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings? A) Metonymy. B) Pun. C) Oxymoron. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 4. Give an example of ethos being used in a persuasive speech. A) A politician advocating for a policy without any expertise in the subject matter. B) A doctor discussing the benefits of a certain medication based on their expertise and experience in the field. C) A chef promoting a new cooking technique without any culinary background. D) A student discussing the benefits of a new educational program without any relevant experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A doctor discussing the benefits of a certain medication based on their expertise and experience in the field. 5. Pathos is A) Appeal to logic. B) Appeal to emotions. C) Speaker's credibility. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to emotions. 6. What is the rhetorical device used when a speaker asks a question to make a point rather than to solicit an answer? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 7. What would differ about the audience for a letter versus a speech? A) The audience for a letter would be more formal. B) The audience for a letter must always be specifically mentioned. C) The audience for a speech would be more broad and possibly be more than 1 person or group while the audience for a letter would be narrower. D) A speech can be written, published, or on tv. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The audience for a speech would be more broad and possibly be more than 1 person or group while the audience for a letter would be narrower. 8. Repetition at the beginning of a line. Example: "We demand truth. We demand justice. We demand equality." A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Epistrophe. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 9. "This house is as clean as a whistle" is an example of which rhetorical device? A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Understatement. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 10. Are we a nation that tolerates the hypocrisy of a system where workers who pick our fruit and make our beds never have a chance to get right with the law? Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms? Or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together? A) Logos. B) Anecdote. C) Ethos. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Question. 11. Complete the analogy.Pencil:write::knife: ..... A) Cut. B) Sharp. C) Spoon. D) Marker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cut. 12. Kobe Bryant is pictured next to Vitamin Water. The caption says, "3 championships and counting ..... 1, 845 bottles of vitamin water and chugging ..... 1 MVP award and long overdue. Try Vitamin Water, it works for Kobe." A) Ethos only. B) Ethos and logos. C) Logos only. D) Pathos and ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos and logos. 13. Which of the following is an example of Circular Reasoning (repeating the same information)? A) "The weather is cold because it's winter.". B) "We should trust him because he is trustworthy.". C) "The cake is sweet because it has sugar.". D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "We should trust him because he is trustworthy.". 14. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? is an example of A) Antithesis. B) Rhetorical question. C) Juxtaposition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 15. Which rhetorical device involves the use of exaggeration for emphasis or effect? A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 16. The repetition of first letters (or sounds) in words that come together in a phrase or sentence. A) ALLITERATION. B) ALLUSION. C) ANTITHESIS. D) ANALOGY. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ALLITERATION. 17. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words that do not rhyme? A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 18. Which literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words in a phrase? A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 19. SPOT THE DEVICE: "We won't win this war without more boots on the ground" A) Synecdoche. B) Ayndeton. C) Anecdote. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 20. A type of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts. "Nice set of wheels!" Wheels = Car A) Simile. B) Hyperbold. C) Synecdoche. D) Syllogism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 21. Which word is the antecedent in the following sentence:Bill said he felt sick. A) Bill. B) Said. C) He. D) Felt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bill. 22. Which of the following is NOT an example of figurative language mentioned in the text? A) Antithesis. B) Asyndeton. C) Metonymy. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 23. What is a repeated word or phrase used for emphasis? There are two common types:anaphora and epistrophe. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 24. What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?According to a study by CNN, 28% of teenagers report that they could manage without a TV. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 25. Addressing a person/entity not present A) Point of View. B) Apostrophe. C) Analogy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 26. Extended comparison of similar things A) Apostrophe. B) Analogy. C) Syntax. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 27. "Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa." -Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Metonymy. D) Synechdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 28. Figurative A) To put to use. B) Form something by combining separate parts. C) The organization and appearance of a text. D) Not literal, but metaphorical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not literal, but metaphorical. 29. Logos uses ..... to appeal to the reader/viewer A) Empathy. B) Logic. C) Emotions. D) Trust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logic. 30. An appeal to emotions. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. 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