This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 66 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 66 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An advertisement that uses this will try to get you to see the company as reliable, honest and credible. A) Pathos. B) Ethos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethos. 2. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech starts many paragraphs with the title of the speech. This is an example of which kind of repetition? A) Restatement. B) Metaphorical. C) Anaphora. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 3. The substitution of mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one, as in the use of "pass away" instead of "die" A) Euphemism. B) Epigram. C) Allusion. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemism. 4. Two terms that are very closely related and both mean to compare 2 items for contrasting effect, are: A) Syllogism and Synecdoche. B) Synecdoche and Juxtaposition. C) Oxymoron and Antithesis. D) Juxtaposition and Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition and Antithesis. 5. "When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful/and terrible thing ..... " A) Alliteration. B) Apostrophe. C) Aporia. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 6. Did you watch the video? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 7. What rhetorical device involves the repetition of a grammatical structure in a sentence? A) Anthimeria. B) Parallelism. C) Asyndeton. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 8. What is a comparison using "like" or "as" ? An example is as follows: "She looked like a doll."" A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. Which rhetorical device involves the arrangement of two or more ideas for comparison or contrast? A) Juxtaposition. B) Paradox. C) Irony. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition. 10. Persuading by using logic and reasoning-Ex. "The data clearly shows that this type of investment yields the highest returns." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 11. What is the definition of patriotism? A) Remark that has a different meaning than what is literally being stated. B) A way of describing a person's willingness to love/defend his/her. C) Strategies that are used to create fear in the audience. D) The intentional repeating of words or phrases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A way of describing a person's willingness to love/defend his/her. 12. What effect does repetition have in a piece of writing or speech? A) To bore the audience. B) To confuse the reader. C) To slow down the pacing. D) To emphasize key points. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To emphasize key points. 13. Brutus:With this I depart ..... that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself when it shall please my country to need my death. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 14. Using humour to criticise public figures A) Oxymoron. B) Allusion. C) Satire. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. 15. Which literary device is characterized by the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in close succession? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. Separating by a class of things or placing ideas into categories following a clear principle or basis A) Division & classification. B) Description. C) Process analysis. D) Definition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Division & classification. 17. What are rhetorical devices? A) Persuading through language. B) Persuading through actions and threats. C) A thesis with two assertions. D) Asking questions to confuse the audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persuading through language. 18. What is the term for a question that is asked for effect, not requiring an answer? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Hypophora. C) Paradox. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 19. "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."~ George Orwell, Animal Farm A) Paradox. B) Parenthetical idea. C) Polysyndeton. D) Parataxis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 20. Antony:Kind souls, what weep you when you but behold our Caesar's vesture wounded (clothing torn)? Look you here ..... here is himself, marred, as you see, with traitors. (Pulls cloak off Caesar's body) A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 21. Identify the rhetorical device in the following example:'This place is like a Garden of Eden.' A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 22. -repetition at the beginning of a line. A) Epistrophe. B) Simile. C) Anaphora. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 23. The following is an example of which rhetorical device?All's fair in love and war. A) Metaphor. B) Pun. C) Rhetorical question. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juxtaposition. 24. SPOT THE DEVICE:"My fellow citizens:I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors." A) Parallelism. B) Antithesis. C) Juxtaposition. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 25. Antony:Bear with me, my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me. A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. 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