This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 43 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. SPOT THE DEVICE: "I wore a sweater, and a hat, and a scarf, and a pair of boots, and mittens." A) Asyndeton. B) Polysyndeton. C) Anaphora. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polysyndeton. 2. How many times do I have to tell you not to yell in the house? A) Analogy. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Antithesis. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Question. 3. Choose the Rhetorical Device which is utilized here:"Better men than us have fought and died to preserve this great nation. Now it is our turn to return the favor. For God and country, gentlemen!" A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 4. Which rhetorical device is being used in the sentence 'She's as thin as a toothpick'? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. Rhetorical Deviceseveral parts of a sentence or several senteces expressed in similar grammatical form to show that the ideas are equal in importance ..... adds rhythm, balance, and emphasis to ideas. A) Rhetorical question. B) Parallelism. C) Repetition. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 6. Logos is an appeal to A) Logic or reason. B) Emotions. C) Credibility or character. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logic or reason. 7. Veni, vidi, vici A) Synecdoche. B) Polysyndeton. C) Asyndeton. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asyndeton. 8. A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words A) Metaphor. B) Anaphora. C) Parallelism. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 9. What is the term for a direct comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 10. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences or clauses? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Alliteration. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 11. This rhetorical device is used when non-human like objects or ideas are given human qualities. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. An intentionally exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally but creating a desired humorous effect A) Diction. B) Ellipsis. C) Ethos. D) Hyperbole. E) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 13. "We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom" ..... this is an example of A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 14. Saying the same thing in different words (ex:This is your mission-the thing you have come here to do). A) Repetition. B) Antithesis. C) Restatement. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Restatement. 15. Instead of saying, "my grandpa is really old, " saying, "my grandpa is over the hill." This is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphemism. 16. An argument based on credibility or ethics; it appeals to good nature A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 17. Compares pairs of things A) Metaphor. B) Anecdote. C) Allusion. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 18. Example of:Isocolon A) "And he to England shall along with you." (Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iii). B) "It was the meanest moment of eternity" . (Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God). C) "Whales in the wake like capes and Alps/ Quaked the sick sea and snouted deep.". D) "What the hammer? what the chain?In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? what dread graspDare its deadly terrors clasp?" William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "What the hammer? what the chain?In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? what dread graspDare its deadly terrors clasp?" William Blake. 19. Which rhetorical device is used to create a contrast between two ideas by placing them close together in a sentence? A) Juxtaposition. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 20. Which rhetorical device is used in the phrase:'The pen is mightier than the sword'? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Metonymy. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 21. Given the phrases "desolate valley of segregation" and "sunlit path of racial justice" identify the literary device used. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Juxtaposition. D) AntithesisTagsDOK Level 2:Skill/Concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 22. My dog not only likes to play fetch, but he also likes to chase cars. A) Parallelism. B) Personification. C) Chiasmus. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 23. Emotions (Getting personal) A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 24. Which literary device is preferred to use when writing persuasive essays in an academic setting? A) Rhetorical devices. B) Proper grammar. C) Logical fallacies. D) Metaphors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical devices. 25. When Jesse Jackson says, "I have done some good, offered some service, shed some light, healed some wounds ..... '' he is using which grammatical pattern that increases clarity and adds rhythm? A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Anaphora. D) Repetition. 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