This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 47 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 47 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the rhetorical device used in the following statement:"Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical device? A) Rhetoric. B) Simile. C) Sarcasm. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric. 3. Asking a question with an obvious answer A) Repetition. B) Charged words. C) Anthropomorphism. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical question. 4. The comparison of two or more unlike things.-equates A) REPETITION. B) METAPHOR. C) DICTION. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) METAPHOR. 5. Which rhetorical device refers to ethics and the image of a person? A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 6. The sentence "I'll love you 'til the ocean is folded and hung up to dry and the seven stars go squawking like geese about the sky, " is an example of which rhetorical device (not simile or metaphor)? A) Hyperbole. B) Anaphora. C) Repetition. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. An inference ..... A) Is a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. B) Can be explicit or implicit. C) Is effected by rhetorical strategies. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. If someone purchased a new car and announced, "I just bought a new set of wheels!" that is an example of ..... A) Synecdoche. B) Hyperbole. C) Oxymoron. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 9. We want to include rhetorical devices in our writing. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. What literary device is used to give human characteristics to non-human objects or abstract ideas? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."This quote contains a(n) ..... A) Analogy. B) Juxtaposition. C) Allusion. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 12. Where was the speech given? A) New York City. B) Detroit. C) Washington, DC. D) Richmond. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Washington, DC. 13. Rhetoric is the powerful use of language A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Excerpt:"A pilot with a fear of heights."-UnknownWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote? A) Irony. B) Loaded Language. C) Understatement. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 15. ETHOS is ..... A) Appeal to credibility/trust. B) Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one. C) A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. D) A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to credibility/trust. 16. "Hope for the best; prepare for the worst" is an example of A) Figurative language. B) Charged words. C) Metonymy. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 17. Complimenting your audience A) Connotation. B) Sarcasm. C) Flattery. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flattery. 18. What technique is employed in the following example?Angel asked, "How can we live in a world without death metal?" A) Hypophora. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Analogy. D) Restatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Question. 19. Words or phrases that have strong positive or negative connotations A) Charged Language. B) Parallell Structure. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charged Language. 20. A complex metaphor or extended simile, a comparison between two similar things A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 21. Which rhetorical device is used when a speaker directly addresses the audience? A) Sweeping generalization. B) Loaded language. C) Analogy. D) Direct address. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Direct address. 22. When a writer includes EVERYONE or EVERYTHING into one category A) Loaded language. B) Sweeping Generalization. C) Rhetorical question. D) Direct address. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sweeping Generalization. 23. What's the Rhetorical Device?The process of creating a word that mimics a sound and using it to describe that sound A) Onomatopoeia. B) Zeugma. C) Irony. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 24. Why is it important to balance all three rhetorical appeals in a persuasive piece? A) It is important to balance all three rhetorical appeals in a persuasive piece to establish credibility, emotional connection, and logical reasoning with the audience. B) Appeals should be imbalanced to create tension. C) Balancing appeals is unnecessary in persuasive writing. D) Focusing on only one appeal is more effective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is important to balance all three rhetorical appeals in a persuasive piece to establish credibility, emotional connection, and logical reasoning with the audience. 25. An ethical appeal to establish credibility and trust.Choose the rhetorical appeal that best fits the definition above. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. 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