Global MCQ Practice

🌐 Total MCQ
🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books

Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 45 (25 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. Which rhetorical device is used in the phrase:'The wind whispered through the trees'?
2. Rhetorical appeal used to appeal to an audience's sense of emotion
3. Which of the following is NOT an example of a rhetorical question?
4. Kirk: "If we play our cards right, we may be able to find out when those whales are being released." Spock: "How will playing cards help?"
5. A quality that evokes pity or sadness
6. Which rhetorical device is used to downplay the significance of a situation or event?
7. The opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.
8. The IRS is auditing me? Great. All I need is a couple of suits arriving at my door.This is an example of .....
9. I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive.
10. Tells a story or recounts a series of events
11. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
12. Is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason, providing facts.
13. " ..... it takes a family; it takes teachers; it takes clergy; it takes business people; it takes community leaders; it takes those who protect our health and safety. It takes all of us." This excerpt includes repetition of a group of words at the beginning of phrases. It is a technique called:
14. "pretty ugly" and "same difference" are both examples of which rhetorical device?
15. "The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe."
16. Identify the appeal in the following:A commercial shows an image of a happy couple riding in a Corvette.
17. The use a short story to create a memorable image in the reader's mind
18. Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, or problems.
19. Instruction to the audience to cause an immediate response (ex:Call now! Vote for me!)
20. Sophia, Grace, and Liam are having a debate. Liam says, 'An understatement is the intentional lessening of the importance of a major thing or event.' Do you agree with Liam?
21. When a writer appeals to the emotions of the intended audience to excite and involve them in the argument.
22. Identify the correct rhetorical device based on this definition:a type of alliteration that repeats the same vowel sound in two or more words
23. Which of the following is an example of a rhetorical question?
24. Which rhetorical appeal is defined as an appeal to the audience's emotions through the use of emotional language?
25. What is the term for verbal irony?
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books