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Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 4 (25 MCQs)

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1. Smoking around kids is dangerous because the defenseless children are exposed to dangerous chemicals that can lead to coughing and difficulty breathing and could even lead to deadly asthma attacks.
2. What is the definition of ethos?
3. Rhetorical Devices are techniques that writers use to ..... their arguments and communicate more effectively.
4. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following quote: "He's as strong as an ox."
5. The methods, incidents, speech, etc., an author uses to reveal the people in the book.
6. A testimonial .....
7. Words and language that help authors persuade readers
8. The act of addressing someone or something that is absent or dead as if it were alive, present, and capable of responding.
9. "John told the children about World War I, " said the narrator.
10. Repeating the structure of speech
11. Identify the rhetorical devices used in the following sentence:Where affections bear rule, their reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued.
12. Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence 'The pen is mightier than the sword'?
13. Using irony to mock something or to show contempt
14. What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?Anyone who cherishes life in all its forms could not help being outraged by the mistreatment of laboratory animals. The so-called scientists who run the labs are evil.
15. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" ~ Shylock, The Merchant of Venice
16. The quote "The glittering sword is whet, and held over them, and the pit hath opened her mouth under them" is an example of:
17. Words that carry strong emotional connotations
18. A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices?
19. What rhetorical appeal is used here:"So here are just a few statistics on the human toll of illegal immigration. According to a 2011 government report, the arrests attached to the criminal alien population included an estimated 25, 000 people for homicide, 42, 000 for robbery ..... "
20. What is the purpose of using emotive language in writing or speech?
21. Are you kidding me with that behaviour?
22. "Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly-mostly-let them have their whiteness." ~ Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
23. The following excerpts are an example of which rhetorical device?"You have something special inside of you.""I'm gonna say it again:You have a gift inside of you."
24. Comparison using "like" or "as."
25. Which rhetorical device is characterized by the use of exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?
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