This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 39 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 39 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Rhetorical Devices A) The art of using language persuasively. B) Techniques writers use to enhance their arguments and communicate effectively. C) The senses used in sensory language. D) Comparisons of something not alive to being human. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Techniques writers use to enhance their arguments and communicate effectively. 2. A short, entertaining account of something happening. Usually personal or biographical. A) Call to action. B) Logos. C) Rhetorical question. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdote. 3. These connect ideas and signal how those ideas are related ..... A) Rhetorical Devices. B) Arguments with Evidence. C) Transitional Words and Phrases. D) Transitional Paragraphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transitional Words and Phrases. 4. Pathos is an appeal to A) Credibility and character. B) Logic or reason. C) Emotions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emotions. 5. "Here, No. 924, take your fare, and take yourself off-respectable gentleman-know him well-none of your nonsense-this way, sir-where's your friends?-all a mistake, I see-never mind-accidents will happen-"~ Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers A) Aposiopesis. B) Parataxis. C) Chiasmus. D) Anthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parataxis. 6. "As a dental hygienist, I've seen what infection can do. That's why I strongly recommend flossing daily." This is an example of whch appeal? A) Logos. B) Ethos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 7. Choose the correct answer for the commercial. A) Direct address. B) Rhetorical question. C) Logical fallacy. D) Sweeping generalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct address. 8. Reference to a person, idea, or activity by substituting something located in close physical proximity to it, as when the king is referred to with the words the crown. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Metonymy. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 9. What literary device is used to create an exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally? A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 10. An argument where a speaker claims to be an expert, or relies on information provided by experts; also involves the speaker's values/morals. A) Expert opinion. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethos. 11. Which rhetorical device is used to create a contrast between two opposing ideas in a parallel structure? A) Antithesis. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 12. What is hyperbole? A) An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. B) A brief reference to a person, place, or event. C) Comparison between two things that are alike. D) Substitution of an agreeable expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. 13. '' 'You seem sad, ' he said." Is this alliteration? A) Yes-it's a repetition of consonant sounds. B) No. C) Probably not-Even though there's some repetition of consonant sounds, it doesn't have a very strong effect. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Probably not-Even though there's some repetition of consonant sounds, it doesn't have a very strong effect. 14. Restating an idea using the SAME WORDS (Kindness is the answer. Kindness can go a long way. Kindness unites us as a nation and makes us one again) A) Repetition. B) AllusionParallelism. C) ParallelismAntithesis. D) RestatementMetaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 15. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..... "-Charles DickensWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote? A) Irony. B) Antithesis. C) Parallelism. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 16. I have a wonder, wonderful time. A) REPETITION. B) SYMBOL. C) ALLUSION. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) REPETITION. 17. "I promised I would not say that she [Carly Fiorina] ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground, that she laid off tens of thousands of people and she got viciously fired. I said I will not say it, so I will not say it" ..... Presidential Nominee Donald TrumpThis quote is an example of A) Logos, pathos, and ethos. B) Ethos and logos. C) Pathos and logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos, pathos, and ethos. 18. The art of effective and persuasive speaking and writing is the definition of: A) Diction. B) Hyperbole. C) Rhetoric. D) Exigence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetoric. 19. What is the term for a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance, without describing it in detail? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 20. You use logic, facts, and statistics to support your claim. A) Counterclaim/Counterargument. B) Appeal to Logic (Logos). C) Repetition. D) Appeal to Authority (Ethos). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to Logic (Logos). 21. The writer uses one word to govern or modify two or more words although its use is grammatically or logically correct with only one A) Zeugma. B) Syllepsis. C) Asyndeton. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zeugma. 22. SPOT THE DEVICE:""That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." A) Antithesis. B) Metonymy. C) Anecdote. D) Polysyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 23. Discussing why/what something happened as a result of something A) Problem/solution. B) Contrast/juxtaposition. C) Narration. D) Cause and/or effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cause and/or effect. 24. Use L'oreal Paris eye shadow and make your lids as colorful as the rainbow sent after the flood. Be as beautiful as God's promise to Noah. A) Allusion. B) Simile and allusion. C) Parallel structure. D) Ethois. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile and allusion. 25. Rhetorical Question A) What is 2 + 2?. B) Do you want to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks?. C) The strategy of asking a question and immediately answering it. D) After all, what is life anyway? We are born, live a little and then die. 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