This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Writing Style > Rhetorical Devices – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rhetorical Devices Quiz 13 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which rhetorical device is used in the phrase 'April showers bring May flowers'? A) Pathos. B) Alliteration. C) Chiasmus. D) Antanagoge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antanagoge. 2. How can understanding rhetorical devices improve writing? A) It helps in crafting more persuasive and impactful messages. B) It makes writing longer and more complex. C) It allows for the use of more technical jargon. D) It reduces the need for editing and revision. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It helps in crafting more persuasive and impactful messages. 3. Elaborating on a definition to ensure no one missed the point A) Imagery. B) Anaphora. C) Description. D) Distinctio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Distinctio. 4. "Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love."The highlighted portion is an example of? A) Ethos. B) Pathos. C) Logos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethos. 5. What is this sentence an example of:The day i graduate I will be happy. The day I get married I will be happy. The day I achieve greatness I will be happy. A) Amplification. B) Anaphora. C) Epistrophe. D) Symploce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symploce. 6. Depending on the idea that the time has come for a particular idea of action. A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Kairos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kairos. 7. Who wouldn't want to be a millionaire? A) Rhetorical Question. B) Parallelism. C) Antithesis. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 8. Asking a question and then answering your own question A) Hyperbole. B) Hypophoric Question. C) Imagery. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypophoric Question. 9. "Indianapolis wins the super bowl by 14 points."What Rhetorical Device is shown? A) Irony. B) Understatement. C) Metonymy. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synecdoche. 10. Amplification. What is this word? A) On a separate piece of paper write half a page of the word amplification and it's definition.(Include details on its origin, other definitions, and synonyms/antonyms) Make sure to explain things in detail. B) Or just choose this answer. Epistrophe means to explain things in great detail. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Or just choose this answer. Epistrophe means to explain things in great detail. 11. The attribution of human characteristics to non-human things A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. Who defined the concepts of logos, pathos and ethos? A) Abraham Lincoln. B) Andrew Jackson. C) Aristotle. D) Alan Sharpe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aristotle. 13. A sudden swerve into a seemingly unrelated idea in the middle of a sentence. A) Anacoluthon. B) Expeditio. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anacoluthon. 14. What rhetorical device or strategy is NOT present here:When I was in college, a close friend of mine was a chronic smoker, and it was heartbreaking to see how it affected his health and our friendship. It would help him relieve some stress but in the end, it damaged his lungs beyond repair. This taught me that indulging a moment of pleasure can lead to a lifetime of pain. A) Concession and refutation. B) Anecdote. C) Antithesis. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 15. What does Epistrophe mean? A) Repetition at the end. B) Repetition. C) Repetition at the beginning. D) Does it matter? It's just another version of repetition, smh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition at the end. 16. Presents the false assumption that there are only two possibilities (think:either/or) A) False Dichotomy. B) Slippery Slope. C) Non-Sequitur. D) Straw-Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False Dichotomy. 17. Works by moving from a seemingly benign premise or starting point and working through a number of small steps to an improbable extreme A) Red Herring. B) Hasty Generalization. C) Slippery Slope. D) Non-Sequitur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slippery Slope. 18. Tone is a rhetorical device in which the writer or speaker? A) Wants you to feel their emotions. B) Tells you where the action is happening. C) Compares two unlike things. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wants you to feel their emotions. 19. What is the main focus of logos as a rhetorical device? A) Moral character. B) Emotion. C) Reason. D) Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reason. 20. "If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A) Antithesis. B) Amplification. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amplification. 21. Repeated phrases used over and over in a speech to drive a point home A) Tone. B) Parallelism. C) Ethos. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 22. Appeal to logic. Ex:Numbers, statistics, percentages, graphs, etc. A) Logos. B) Pathos. C) Ethos. D) Kairos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logos. 23. Match the definition to the rhetorical device:the use of repeated grammatical form to emphasize a point. A) Aphorism. B) Euphemism. C) Parallelism. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 24. "My life has been a ship sailing sea to sea." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 25. The reason for writing A) Diction. B) Purpose. C) Logos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Purpose. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesRhetorical Devices Quiz 1Rhetorical Devices Quiz 2Rhetorical Devices Quiz 3Rhetorical Devices Quiz 4Rhetorical Devices Quiz 5Rhetorical Devices Quiz 6Rhetorical Devices Quiz 7Rhetorical Devices Quiz 8Rhetorical Devices Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books