Rhetorical Devices Test

Name the rhetorical device present in the following quote. “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• UNderstatement

An appeal to trust and ethics is an appeal to...

• Logos
• Ethos
• Pathos

A __________________ is any stylistic device or resource of language that an author or speaker uses to help persuade or make a desired impact on his/her audience.

• Simile
• Rhetorical Device
• Rhetorical Appeal
• Allusion

When Neil Armstrong said, “That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind,” he was using which rhetorical device?

• Parallelism

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Juxtaposition

A comparison using like or as is called a...

• Simile
• Oxymoron
• Understatement
• Parallelism

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?

• Restatement

• Metaphorical

• Anaphora

• Juxtaposition

When your friend is trying to convince you to do something and he says, “Come on, what’s the worst that could happen?” he’s using what kind of rhetorical device to try to convince you?

• Rhetorical Question
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Euphemism

When someone uses data, facts, and logic they’re trying to appeal to

• Ethos
• Logos 
• Pathos

Name the device present in this quote: "Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends.”

• Euphemism

• Restatement

• Personification

• Repetition

What is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing called?

• Juxtaposition
• Logos
• Rhetoric
• Hyperbole