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Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 52 (30 MCQs)

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1. Substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be hard or unpleasant.
2. A short story
3. Learning a new language is unlocking a secret door to another world.
4. A brief indirect reference ( to a person, event, object, time period, literary work)
5. The repetition of related ideas in the same grammatical structure
6. Strategic exaggeration or overstatement.
7. Using logos means appealing to a reader's sense of what
8. "I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers." ..... Langston HughesWhich technique is used prominently in the above line of Hughes' poem?
9. Which of the following is an example of litotes?
10. Presenting a topic as a problem and then relating the author's solution
11. The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
12. Making a point by asserting two words next to each other that are seemingly contradictory.
13. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of several words in close succession?
14. You shouldn't text and drive. Nearly 25% of all car accidents are caused by drivers using cell phones while driving.
15. The ocean heaved a sigh that sent the wave crashing on the shore
16. Containing facts, opinions, samples, and anecdotes to make ideas more concrete and to make generalizations more specific and detailed
17. What are questions called that are asked to make a point or to create a dramatic effect?
18. Author's attitude toward a subject/topic (examples:irritated, formal, objective, condescending, etc.)
19. What is imagery?
20. "She yawned gracefully in my face. 'Please come and see me ..... Phone book ..... Under the name of Mrs. Sigourney Howard ..... My aunt ..... ' She was hurrying off as she talked-her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted into her party at the door." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
21. I know I'm playing Cupid, but I think Bob and my cousin should spend more time together.
22. Antony:It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men.
23. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
24. The following excerpt most closely reflects which appeal?"So you can't call everybody your friend. The word FRIEND comes from an European word FREUND, meaning to love. These people they don't love you."
25. Debate and advertising are forms of:
26. The following is an example of which type of rhetorical device? There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service.
27. Which rhetorical appeal aims to establish the credibility and trustworthiness of the speaker or writer?
28. A climate scientist gives a speech to Congress about his studies on climate change to urge them to take action before it's too late.Which rhetorical device is used?
29. Identify the appeal in the following:A child is shown covered in bug bites after using an inferior bug spray.
30. Anything that can be related to with one of the five senses.
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