Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 58 (21 MCQs)

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1. What technique is being used in the quotation below:"Why wouldn't you want to visit one of the most beautiful countries of the world, Tuscany Italy?"
2. Which appeal proves the speaker can be trusted based on character or qualifications?
3. Repeating a sentence structure
4. Explaining what a term or concept means
5. Which rhetorical device is the following an example of?"We must protest until the school removes the vending machines. How much longer should we continue to feed our children junk food?"
6. A statement that expresses the opposite of the literal meaning of the words. Often used for humorous of sarcastic effect
7. Identify the Rhetorical Device:Over, over, the waves rolled around; the boat along with the waves; the lighthouse peering at it every rotation, intrigued ..... then, not intrigued enough to act.
8. Identify the literary device used in the following sentence: "We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal'." ."
9. How does the use of repetition in 'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds' affect its emotional impact?
10. Logos could be which of the following?
11. A brief story usually told to prove a point. It may be about the speaker or about someone the speaker knows/has heard of
12. A satiric of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas, or work
13. Hurl or launch (something) in a specified direction with or as if with a catapult. To move into the spotlight
14. A type of metaphor in which non-human things or ideas are given human qualities
15. Which rhetorical device is used: "4 out of 5 dentists recommend Colgate, so you should go with the reliable choice."
16. The repetition of words at the end of a line
17. The Rhetorical Situation consists of the following:
18. If your boss says, "I'm letting you go, " instead of "You're fired!" She/he is using a .....
19. Rhetorical questions are literal.
20. 30 years later and teenagers are still addicted, but now to vaping and texting. 30 years later and parents are even less involved in teens' lives than they were. 30 years later and God has been taken out of the picture and replaced with materialism ..... WHAT DEVICE and WHAT TONE?
21. The repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses