This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 60 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 60 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Hello kind sir, I am starving and need food. Could you spare a couple dollars?" A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 2. Which term describes the repetition of similar words, phrases, or ideas to represent that the ideas are of equal or higher value and importance? A) Parallelism. B) Metaphor. C) Juxtaposition. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 3. "I've told you a million times not to exaggerate!"-UnknownWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote? A) Anaphora. B) Antithesis. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 4. Direct address involves talking directly to a person or group to grab their attention. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle; often a memorable summation of the author's point. A) Aphorism. B) Allegory. C) Adage. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aphorism. 6. Means:a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa A) Synecdoche. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 7. Which of these is IRONIC? A) Bringing an umbrella on a rainy day. B) Wearing a winter coat in the summer. C) Turning off the lights during the day. D) Choosing an umbrella on a sunny day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Choosing an umbrella on a sunny day. 8. A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event. A) Apostrophe. B) Anaphora. C) Anecdote. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anecdote. 9. Which rhetorical device is used here? "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." A) Analogy. B) Allusion. C) Parallelism. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 10. While ranting at the children, mom yelled "Why doesn't anyone help around here?! I'm always vacuuming the carpet, dusting the shelves, buying the groceries, and doing the dishes!" A) Repetition only. B) Parallelism. C) Rhetorical Question only. D) Rhetorical Question and parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical Question and parallelism. 11. "Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Repetition. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 12. Using anecdotes and pronouns helps build ..... (Hint, there are two right answers, but one is MORE correct.) A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 13. The placing next to a noun another noun or phrases that explains it A) Apposition. B) Parenthesis. C) Anastrophe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apposition. 14. ..... means:two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. A) Apposition. B) Antimetabole. C) Parallelism. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 15. Which rhetorical device is used: "The pen is mightier than the sword." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Metonymy. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 16. What is the definition of connotative? A) Using language effectively and persuasively in writing or speaking. B) Literal meaning of a word or phrase (the dictionary definition). C) Questions that do not require an answer. D) The emotions or feelings that a word or phrase creates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The emotions or feelings that a word or phrase creates. 17. "We Americans are a vast & quarrelsome family."Is this a metaphor? A) No. There's no comparison being made between two things. B) Yes. It is comparing one thing (Americans) to another (a family.). C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. It is comparing one thing (Americans) to another (a family.). 18. What is the rhetorical device used in the sentence:'The car was as fast as lightning.'? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 19. Which rhetorical device is used here? "Shopping is for girls is the same as oxygen for humans." A) Analogy. B) Allusion. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analogy. 20. An appeal to logic and reason.Choose the rhetorical appeal that best fits the definition above. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 21. In paragraph two, King states, "Five score years ago ..... " what type of rhetorical or literary device is this? A) Allusion. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 22. What is one of the strongest political and social tools? A) Technology. B) Speech. C) Art. D) Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speech. 23. When was the "I Have a Dream" speech given? A) August, 1973. B) August, 1963. C) August, 1969. D) August, 1953. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) August, 1963. 24. What is an oxymoron? A) A humorous imitation of a serious work. B) A seemingly contradictory situation that is true. C) When contradictory terms are grouped together. D) The repetition of the same consonant sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When contradictory terms are grouped together. 25. Define:Epistrophe A) Epistrophe is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. B) Epistrophe is the repetition of the last word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. C) Epistrophe is the succesive of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. D) Epistrophe is the absence of words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epistrophe is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. ← 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