Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 51 (25 MCQs)

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1. Two ideas, places, or characters placed beside each other for contrasting effect.
2. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner).
3. A brief recounting of a relevant episode.
4. Repeating of words/ phrases/ ideas that you want your audience to remember.
5. Identify the rhetorical device: "The leaves danced in the wind."
6. This is a repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several subsequent clauses or phrases.
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."
8. He was a Good Samaritan yesterday when he helped the lady start her car.This sentence uses
9. Finding a new friend is like discovering a hidden treasure.
10. Ethos, logos, and pathos are all examples of what?
11. A short story that is used to make a point
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.
13. A type of figurative language that exaggerates to show strong feeling or effect
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
15. "These high heels are killing me" is an example of what kind of rhetorical device?
16. Administer an anesthetic to (a person or animal). Desensitize
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."
18. Which of the following rhetorical devices involves a statement that appears to contradict itself, but in reality expresses a truth?
19. Explaining the characteristics of a subject
20. ..... means:a question someone asks without expecting an answer. It's just asked to make a point.
21. -a statement that says less than it means; often used for comedic effect.
22. Which of the following rhetorical devices uses repeating grammatical structures and contrasting ideas?
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?
24. Which rhetorical device appeals to people's emotions?
25. What is the art of persuasion?