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Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 62 (25 MCQs)

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1. A response to the counterargument that should address the flaws made in argument and prove why it is wrong is called the
2. The effect of ..... in a passage is to add emphasis and improve clarity
3. What rhetorical device is used when a speaker raises a question and then immediately answers it?
4. Adds balance and rhythm to sentences; connects ideas
5. When I was in high school, I was on the track team. We traveled all over the country for competitions.
6. Substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be hard or unpleasant.
7. A short story
8. Learning a new language is unlocking a secret door to another world.
9. A brief indirect reference ( to a person, event, object, time period, literary work)
10. The repetition of related ideas in the same grammatical structure
11. Strategic exaggeration or overstatement.
12. Using logos means appealing to a reader's sense of what
13. "I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers." ..... Langston HughesWhich technique is used prominently in the above line of Hughes' poem?
14. Which of the following is an example of litotes?
15. Presenting a topic as a problem and then relating the author's solution
16. The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
17. Making a point by asserting two words next to each other that are seemingly contradictory.
18. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of several words in close succession?
19. You shouldn't text and drive. Nearly 25% of all car accidents are caused by drivers using cell phones while driving.
20. The ocean heaved a sigh that sent the wave crashing on the shore
21. Containing facts, opinions, samples, and anecdotes to make ideas more concrete and to make generalizations more specific and detailed
22. What are questions called that are asked to make a point or to create a dramatic effect?
23. Author's attitude toward a subject/topic (examples:irritated, formal, objective, condescending, etc.)
24. What is imagery?
25. "She yawned gracefully in my face. 'Please come and see me ..... Phone book ..... Under the name of Mrs. Sigourney Howard ..... My aunt ..... ' She was hurrying off as she talked-her brown hand waved a jaunty salute as she melted into her party at the door." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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