This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 24 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An example of a synecdoche is A) A hospital tried to revive him. B) The pen is mightier than the sword. C) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A hospital tried to revive him. 2. I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain-and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by the watchman on his beatAnd dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. A) Rhetorical Question. B) Parallelism. C) Loaded Words/Connotation. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 3. The constant complaints of our opponents make me feel as though I'm in a large drumthat is being beaten by a small child. A) Sweeping generalization. B) Analogy. C) Direct address. D) Loaded language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 4. This refers to the writer's use of vivid and descriptive language that appeal to the senses in order to add depth to his/her work. A) Description. B) Imagery. C) Senses. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 5. To use words to mean the opposite of their literal meaning A) Irony. B) Allusion. C) Satire. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 6. If I personify something, then I give it what? A) Non-human qualities. B) Characteristics. C) Dynamic character ability. D) Human qualities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Human qualities. 7. Which of the following rhetorical devices uses the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle of or at the end of several closely connected words. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 8. How do you know when ANTITHESIS is being used? A) Antithesis is not identified by contrasting ideas. B) Look for contrasting ideas presented in a balanced parallel structure. C) Check for unrelated ideas presented in a balanced parallel structure. D) Look for similar ideas presented in a balanced parallel structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Look for contrasting ideas presented in a balanced parallel structure. 9. Complete the analogy.Smart is to intelligent as tasty is to ..... A) Food. B) Hungry. C) Delicious. D) Disgusting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Delicious. 10. The repetition of the same initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables in any sequence of neighboring words A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Analogy. D) Antithesis. E) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 11. "It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped ..... I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will." The example above contains what rhetorical device? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Anecdote. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 12. Love is an ideal thing, marriage is the real thing. A) Anaphora. B) Metaphor. C) Antithesis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antithesis. 13. "The sun shone brightly upon the golden fields of wheat."-UnknownWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote? A) Irony. B) Antithesis. C) Parallelism. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 14. What the author's purpose in writing an article about the beauty of the pumpkin patch in the full autumn season with leaves, fall flowers, and other items of fall? A) Explain. B) Describe. C) Entertain. D) Inform. E) Persuade. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Describe. 15. A reference to an object or person by naming only a part of the object or person A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Hyperbole. D) Litote. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 16. What 3 things must you do to score a 1 in Row A of the thesis? A) Identify the writer's idea noun and message. B) Create a one sentence thesis statement that answers the question in a 2.4 format. C) Respond to the prompt, have a defensible thesis that contains a claim, identify at least 2 rhetorical choices the writer makes. D) Restate the prompt, summarize the text, provide a concluding statement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Respond to the prompt, have a defensible thesis that contains a claim, identify at least 2 rhetorical choices the writer makes. 17. This rhetorical device that is an arrangement of words or sentences in similar grammatical form to show the ideas are equal in importance. Examples of this are: "Easy come, easy go.Like father, like son.I have a dream." A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Oxymoron. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 18. What is an example of a False Dilemma fallacy? A) "You are either with us, winning; or, you are against us, suffering.". B) "The sun rises in the east because it always has.". C) "The plant grew because it was watered.". D) "The cake is sweet because it has sugar.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "You are either with us, winning; or, you are against us, suffering.". 19. Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence 'She sells seashells by the seashore'? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Metonymy. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. What is a statement called that claims or criticism is not true? A) Rebuttal. B) Rhetoric. C) Audience. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rebuttal. 21. We are here to struggle, we are here to fight, we are here to win. We are not here to give up, we are not here to back down, we are not here to lose! A) Alliteration. B) Parallel Structure. C) Analogy. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallel Structure. 22. A student says, "You should really try these baked Cheetos. They have 500 calories less than the regular Cheetos. In fact, they have 700 fewer calories than french fries." The student is using which type of rhetorical device? A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Bandwagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 23. Means:A phrase or sentence that is repeated in reverse order using the exact same words and grammatical pattern A) Asyndeton. B) Rhetorical question. C) Parallelism. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antimetabole. 24. A reference to another work of literature, person, or event. A) Analogy. B) Allusion. C) Amplification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 25. A type of metaphor in which the comparison is made explicit through the use of words such as like, as, similar to, or resembles. A) Personification. B) Apostrophe. C) Simile. D) Synechdoche. 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