Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 49 (25 MCQs)

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1. Is, "As nutty as a fruit cake" an example of antithesis?
2. What is the term for a rhetorical device that involves the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses?
3. Mrs. Williams is Wonder Woman. Weekly.
4. When one or more words are omitted from a sentence
5. What is the term for the repetition of the same grammatical structure within a sentence?
6. Which rhetorical device is used in the following sentences?"The gushing stream flows in the forest.""The sack fell into the river with a splash."
7. Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
8. The quote "There only remain a hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born" from Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is an example of:
9. Grouping language in threes
10. All of the following are examples of ..... "revolution of hope", "instruments of war", "chains of poverty"
11. What is emphazied in antithesis?
12. The repeated use of a word.
13. Identify the rhetorical device in this statement:'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.'
14. I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of
15. Clauses that may begin each phrase of a piece the same(ex:Alice ran into the room, into the garden, and into our hearts)
16. These are techniques writers use to enhance their arguments and communicate more effectively.
17. In Obama's 2004 DNC speech, the most often used rhetorical device is:
18. The children's novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is actually a(n) ..... about religion that features Aslan as Christ and Edmund as Judas
19. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, " is an example of:
20. What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:"And that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
21. Everyone loves pizza.
22. SPOT THE DEVICE:"Put to sleep" instead of "euthanize""Dearly departed" instead of "died"
23. Lists 3 or more words, phrases, or clauses of equal importance using commas to separate.
24. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
25. Excerpt:"Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer."-UnknownWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote?