This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Discourse > Rhetorical Cohesion Devices – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Cohesion Devices Quiz 9 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Comparison using "like" or "as." Example: "She was as quiet as a mouse." A) Metaphor. B) Rhetorical question. C) Simile. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 2. Which of the following is a Hyperbole? A) We must be swift as the coursing river. B) I'm so hungry I could eat a whole elephant. C) Life is your restaurant. D) Cause, baby, you're a firework. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I'm so hungry I could eat a whole elephant. 3. An appeal to emotions is an appeal to ..... A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 4. Which rhetorical device refers to emotions or passion? A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 5. Which of the following rhetorical devices can be seen in the following excerpt: "We will rise from the golden hills of the west. We will rise from the windswept northeast ..... We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities." A) Paradox. B) Parallelism. C) Anastrophe. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 6. Excerpt:"This tax is a burden on hard-working families."-UnknownWhat rhetorical device is exemplified in this quote? A) Irony. B) Loaded Language. C) Understatement. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loaded Language. 7. Identify the rhetorical device in the following sentence:'She sells sea shells by the sea shore.' A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 8. Casually referencing something that is well known A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 9. Which rhetorical device is used: "My client has been an upstanding member of society and has never been in trouble before this incident. This was a one-time incident, your honor." A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 10. If you want your audience to feel scared in order to encourage them to make change based on your argument, you should use ..... A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) A professional speaker. D) Call to action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 11. If an argument is coherent it A) Is clear and intelligible. B) Are logically arranged. C) Have understandable sentence structure. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 12. Which of the following is NOT an element of ethos? A) References to shared beliefs. B) Explanations of personal authority. C) Use of emotional language. D) Grammatically correct writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use of emotional language. 13. Which symbol represents pathos? A) Heart. B) Hand. C) Head. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heart. 14. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 15. She is worried because the more she sleeps, the more tired she feels in the morning instead of waking up well rested. A) PARADOX. B) PARALLELISM. C) HYPERBOLE. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PARADOX. 16. Repetition of the initial consonant sounds beginning several words in sequence A) Alliteration. B) Antithesis. C) Ethos. D) Euphamism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 17. Which rhetorical device involves the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Antithesis. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 18. A statement that says less than it means; often used for comedic effect. Example: "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." A) Verbal irony. B) Understatement. C) Juxtaposition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 19. Brutus:Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos. 20. Brutus:Who is here so rude (uncivilized) that would not be a Roman? [ ..... ] Who is here so vile that will not love his country? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos. 21. What is an example of personification in food advertising? A) 'Pop! Goes the popcorn.'. B) 'Our smoothie dances on your taste buds.'. C) 'Our ice cream is as creamy as a cloud.'. D) 'Our cookies are little bites of happiness.'. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'Our smoothie dances on your taste buds.'. 22. Which of the following is NOT an example of an onomatopoeia? A) Bang!. B) Bark!. C) Clatter!. D) You!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) You!. 23. Compares things using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 24. Someone saying "What nice weather we are having" in the middle of a thunderstorm. A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Irony. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 25. Which of the following is an example of pathos? A) Citing statistics from a reputable source. B) Sharing a personal story to evoke sympathy. C) Using a well-known expert's opinion to support an argument. D) Presenting a step-by-step logical argument. 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