Rhetorical Devices Quiz 13 (25 MCQs)

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1. Which rhetorical device is used in the phrase 'April showers bring May flowers'?
2. How can understanding rhetorical devices improve writing?
3. Elaborating on a definition to ensure no one missed the point
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?
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.
6. Depending on the idea that the time has come for a particular idea of action.
7. Who wouldn't want to be a millionaire?
8. Asking a question and then answering your own question
9. "Indianapolis wins the super bowl by 14 points."What Rhetorical Device is shown?
10. Amplification. What is this word?
11. The attribution of human characteristics to non-human things
12. Who defined the concepts of logos, pathos and ethos?
13. A sudden swerve into a seemingly unrelated idea in the middle of a sentence.
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.
15. What does Epistrophe mean?
16. Presents the false assumption that there are only two possibilities (think:either/or)
17. Works by moving from a seemingly benign premise or starting point and working through a number of small steps to an improbable extreme
18. Tone is a rhetorical device in which the writer or speaker?
19. What is the main focus of logos as a rhetorical device?
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.
21. Repeated phrases used over and over in a speech to drive a point home
22. Appeal to logic. Ex:Numbers, statistics, percentages, graphs, etc.
23. Match the definition to the rhetorical device:the use of repeated grammatical form to emphasize a point.
24. "My life has been a ship sailing sea to sea."
25. The reason for writing