This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 57 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 57 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Antony:I am no orator, as Brutus is, but, as you know me all, a plain blunt man that love my friend. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 2. The following words are an example of ..... fat, old, liar, slavery, nerd, villain, etc. A) Assonance. B) Consonnace. C) Rhetorical question. D) Loaded language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loaded language. 3. Which definition closely matches the definition for direct address? A) Where the author directly addresses the audience through the word "you" . B) A general statement that sounds factual but is not proven to be true. C) An error in logic and reasoning. D) An over-generalized statement about an entire group of people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where the author directly addresses the audience through the word "you" . 4. Identify the rhetorical device in the following sentence:'The pen is mightier than the sword.' A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. I know you are bold, brilliant, and brave. I believe that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to! A) Sarcasm. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 6. How do logical fallacies affect an author's argument? A) They strengthen the author's argument. B) They weaken the author's argument. C) They do not affect the author's argument. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They weaken the author's argument. 7. A statement in which opposite ideas are contrasted is an example of A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 8. What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?"98% of patients who take Medicine A reported no side effects and tested negative for the disease. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 9. SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: "I was so cold that I wore a sweater, a hat, a scarf, mittens, flannel underwear ..... " A) Asyndeton. B) Polysyndeton. C) Anaphora. D) Epiphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asyndeton. 10. What is the purpose of using rhetorical devices in writing? A) To confuse the reader. B) To enhance the persuasiveness of the text. C) To make the text longer. D) To reduce the clarity of the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To enhance the persuasiveness of the text. 11. What rhetorical device is used when a speaker repeats the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Chiasmus. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 12. Identify the correct rhetorical device based on this definition:the repetition of the same sound/letter at the start of two or more words A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Assonance. E) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. Finish this analogy.Conclusion is to an essay as ..... A) An orange is to a peel. B) Cold is to freezing. C) Dessert is to a meal. D) A title is to a book. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dessert is to a meal. 14. Repeating grammatical structures A) Antithesis. B) Parallelism. C) Allusion. D) Restatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 15. Convincing your friend to go hiking with you because "they will have a great time" is what rhetorical device? A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 16. A usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical; a short account of an event A) Adulation. B) Abbreviate. C) Antidote. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdote. 17. What is the best definition for repetition? A) Repeating a specific phrase to add rhythm or structure. B) Repeating a word or phrase to add emphasis. C) Word choice that is used to make the reader feel a specific emotion. D) Referring to well-known people, books, or institutions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repeating a word or phrase to add emphasis. 18. Which figurative language is the following an example of? "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred" (King). A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 19. "Yesterday, December 7th, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan" ..... FDRWhich rhetorical devices and/or persuasive techniques are used in the above statement? A) Logos and pathos. B) Ethos and pathos. C) Allusion and pathos. D) Allusion and ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos and pathos. 20. Which rhetorical appeal is being used in the statement 'Over 75% of those who suffer from migraines choose Excedrin.' A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 21. Which of the following is a tone analysis technique? A) Identifying rhetorical devices. B) Analyzing plot structure. C) Summarizing the main points. D) Examining the author's word choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Examining the author's word choice. 22. And we've come here from every crack, crease, and crevice of our country to our Capital to say that, for all those whose cares have been our concern, we're ready. A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Antithesis. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 23. The early bird gets the worm A) Consonance. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 24. The diction of "generous America" used by President Obama shows A) How America can be a truly generous country. B) Verbal irony since America is NOT a generous country. C) A metaphor comparing America to generosity. D) A symbol of American hope and the American Dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How America can be a truly generous country. 25. A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts A) Hyperbole. B) Ellipsis. C) Figurative language. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 26. What is the definition of rhetorical questions? A) A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or incite problem solving. B) A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. C) A question asked in order to create a calming effect or to ask for a logical answer. D) A statement made in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. 27. Brutus:Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 28. A persuasive appeal based on the projected character of the speaker or narrator. Or based on the listener's sense of right or wrong. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Extremist. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethos. 29. "Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country" A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 30. In his "We shall fight on the Beaches" speech, 1940, Winston Churchill said: "We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence ..... " This is an example of a/an A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Oxymoron. 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