This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 51 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 51 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Two ideas, places, or characters placed beside each other for contrasting effect. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Juxtaposition. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 2. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner). A) Consonance. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 3. A brief recounting of a relevant episode. A) Anecdote. B) Allusion. C) Antecedent. D) Aphorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anecdote. 4. Repeating of words/ phrases/ ideas that you want your audience to remember. A) Repetition. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Anecdote. D) Call to action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 5. Identify the rhetorical device: "The leaves danced in the wind." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. This is a repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several subsequent clauses or phrases. A) Epistrophe. B) Antithesis. C) Anaphora. D) Symploce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 7. "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the streets, we shall fight in the hiss; we shall never surrender." A) Metaphoric language. B) Accumulate supporting points. C) Word repetition. D) Rule of three. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Word repetition. 8. He was a Good Samaritan yesterday when he helped the lady start her car.This sentence uses A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 9. Finding a new friend is like discovering a hidden treasure. A) Direct address. B) Analogy. C) Sweeping generalization. D) Loaded language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 10. Ethos, logos, and pathos are all examples of what? A) Euphemisms. B) Understatements. C) Rhetorical Appeals. D) Hyperboles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical Appeals. 11. A short story that is used to make a point A) Parallelism. B) Rhetorical question. C) Simile. D) Anecdote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anecdote. 12. Get the flu shot, so the flu doesn't get you! Influenza can lead to serious complications and even death for people in high risk groups. Protect yourself. A) Antithesis. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Antithesis and pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis and pathos. 13. A type of figurative language that exaggerates to show strong feeling or effect A) Appeal. B) Hyperbole. C) Logical fallacy. D) Generalizations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 14. A construction in which one word seems to be in the same relation to two or more other words but in fact is not A) Syllepsis. B) Asyndeton. C) Ellipsis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syllepsis. 15. "These high heels are killing me" is an example of what kind of rhetorical device? A) Euphemism. B) Hyperbole. C) Understatement. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 16. Administer an anesthetic to (a person or animal). Desensitize A) Reiterate. B) Perilously. C) Anesthetizing. D) Repudiated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anesthetizing. 17. A brief reference to a famous person or event-often from literature, history, Greek mythology, or the Bible. Example: "He was a real Romeo with the ladies." A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 18. Which of the following rhetorical devices involves a statement that appears to contradict itself, but in reality expresses a truth? A) Contrast. B) Antithesis. C) Paradox. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 19. Explaining the characteristics of a subject A) Problem/solution. B) Comparison/analogy. C) Description. D) Cause and/or effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Description. 20. ..... means:a question someone asks without expecting an answer. It's just asked to make a point. A) Allusion. B) Repetition. C) Rhetorical question. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhetorical question. 21. -a statement that says less than it means; often used for comedic effect. A) Euphemism. B) Anaphora. C) Understatement. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understatement. 22. Which of the following rhetorical devices uses repeating grammatical structures and contrasting ideas? A) Antithesis. B) Parallelism. C) Paradox. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antithesis. 23. "What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred."Is this example HYPOPHORA? A) Yes. It asks a question and then provides an answer, even if it is an indirect one. B) No. A question is asked, but there's no answer provided. C) Maybe. It asks a question, but what comes next doesn't actually answer that question. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. It asks a question and then provides an answer, even if it is an indirect one. 24. Which rhetorical device appeals to people's emotions? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Kairos. D) Logos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 25. What is the art of persuasion? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. 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