This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 53 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 53 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Complete the analogy.Pencil:write::knife: ..... A) Cut. B) Sharp. C) Spoon. D) Marker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cut. 2. Kobe Bryant is pictured next to Vitamin Water. The caption says, "3 championships and counting ..... 1, 845 bottles of vitamin water and chugging ..... 1 MVP award and long overdue. Try Vitamin Water, it works for Kobe." A) Ethos only. B) Ethos and logos. C) Logos only. D) Pathos and ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos and logos. 3. Which of the following is an example of Circular Reasoning (repeating the same information)? A) "The weather is cold because it's winter.". B) "We should trust him because he is trustworthy.". C) "The cake is sweet because it has sugar.". D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "We should trust him because he is trustworthy.". 4. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? is an example of A) Antithesis. B) Rhetorical question. C) Juxtaposition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical question. 5. Which rhetorical device involves the use of exaggeration for emphasis or effect? A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. The repetition of first letters (or sounds) in words that come together in a phrase or sentence. A) ALLITERATION. B) ALLUSION. C) ANTITHESIS. D) ANALOGY. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ALLITERATION. 7. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words that do not rhyme? A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 8. Which literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words in a phrase? A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 9. SPOT THE DEVICE: "We won't win this war without more boots on the ground" A) Synecdoche. B) Ayndeton. C) Anecdote. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 10. A type of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts. "Nice set of wheels!" Wheels = Car A) Simile. B) Hyperbold. C) Synecdoche. D) Syllogism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synecdoche. 11. Which word is the antecedent in the following sentence:Bill said he felt sick. A) Bill. B) Said. C) He. D) Felt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bill. 12. Which of the following is NOT an example of figurative language mentioned in the text? A) Antithesis. B) Asyndeton. C) Metonymy. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 13. What is a repeated word or phrase used for emphasis? There are two common types:anaphora and epistrophe. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 14. What Rhetorical Appeal is used here?According to a study by CNN, 28% of teenagers report that they could manage without a TV. A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 15. Addressing a person/entity not present A) Point of View. B) Apostrophe. C) Analogy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 16. Extended comparison of similar things A) Apostrophe. B) Analogy. C) Syntax. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 17. "Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa." -Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Metonymy. D) Synechdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 18. Figurative A) To put to use. B) Form something by combining separate parts. C) The organization and appearance of a text. D) Not literal, but metaphorical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not literal, but metaphorical. 19. Logos uses ..... to appeal to the reader/viewer A) Empathy. B) Logic. C) Emotions. D) Trust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logic. 20. An appeal to emotions. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 21. "But why watch me die like Eliza on the ice?" ~ Stephen Sondheim, "Not Getting Married Today"or"Chocolate is my Kryptonite" A) Jargon. B) Allusion. C) Extended metaphor. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 22. Which rhetorical appeal appeals to emotions and feelings? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 23. The appeal to credibility or ethics is also called A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 24. A question used for effect rather than response (ex:Sure! Why not?) A) Rhetorical question. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical question. 25. Several parts of a sentence or several sentences expressed in similar grammatical form to show that the ideas are equal in importance. A) Rhetorical Question. B) Paralellism. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paralellism. ← 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