This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 49 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 49 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Is, "As nutty as a fruit cake" an example of antithesis? A) No it is Juxtaposition. B) No. C) Yes. D) No it is parellelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 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? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 3. Mrs. Williams is Wonder Woman. Weekly. A) Alliteration. B) Juxtaposition. C) Claim. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. When one or more words are omitted from a sentence A) Diction. B) Ellipsis. C) Ethos. D) Hyperbole. E) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ellipsis. 5. What is the term for the repetition of the same grammatical structure within a sentence? A) Repetition. B) Parallel Structure. C) Rhetorical Questions. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallel Structure. 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." A) Triplet. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 7. Speech is silver, but silence is gold. A) Antithesis. B) Anaphora. C) Humor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 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: A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 9. Grouping language in threes A) Imperatives. B) Triplets. C) Flattery. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Triplets. 10. All of the following are examples of ..... "revolution of hope", "instruments of war", "chains of poverty" A) Allusion. B) Anaphora. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 11. What is emphazied in antithesis? A) Always the contrast. B) The similar comparison. C) The identical concepts. D) Always the counter argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Always the contrast. 12. The repeated use of a word. A) REPETITION. B) ANECDOTE. C) METAPHOR. D) DICTION. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) REPETITION. 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.' A) Antithesis. B) Anaphora. C) Chiasmus. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chiasmus. 14. I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of A) Restatement. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 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) A) Antithesis. B) Parallelism. C) Allusion. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 16. These are techniques writers use to enhance their arguments and communicate more effectively. A) Speech/Ideas. B) Attitude. C) Arguments. D) Rhetorical devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical devices. 17. In Obama's 2004 DNC speech, the most often used rhetorical device is: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Powerful Diction. D) Anecdotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdotes. 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 A) Allegory. B) Aphorism. C) Figurative language. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 19. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, " is an example of: A) Analogy. B) Imagery. C) Litotes. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 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." A) Asyndeton. B) Antimetabole. C) Apposition. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epistrophe. 21. Everyone loves pizza. A) Direct address. B) Analogy. C) Sweeping generalization. D) Loaded language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sweeping generalization. 22. SPOT THE DEVICE:"Put to sleep" instead of "euthanize""Dearly departed" instead of "died" A) Euphemism. B) Anecdote. C) Parallelism. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 23. Lists 3 or more words, phrases, or clauses of equal importance using commas to separate. A) Rising action. B) Rhetorical question. C) Parallel structure. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallel structure. 24. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. A) Simile. B) Oxymoron. C) Analogy. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 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? A) Irony. B) Loaded Language. C) Understatement. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesRhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 1Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 2Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 3Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 4Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 5Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 6Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 7Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 8Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books