Language and Composition: The Art of Voice (Muller and Whiting)

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Quiz

1
Which rhetorical device does Maya Angelou use in these passages from "Graduation": "The school blazed without gaiety. The windows seemed cold and unfriendly from the lower hill."
A)understatement
B)juxtaposition
C)metaphor
D)foreshadowing
2
Which rhetorical device is used most frequently in Judy Brady's "I Want a Wife"?
A)analogy
B)imagery
C)repetition
D)symbolism
3
All of the following are metaphors for God's wrath in Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" EXCEPT for which one?
A)"chaff of the summer threshing floor"
B)"great waters that are dammed for the present"
C)bow and arrow
D)"glowing flames"
4
Which rhetorical device does John F. Kennedy use in this passage from his Inaugural Address: "tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace"?
A)juxtaposition
B)allusion
C)alliteration
D)analogy
5
Which of these appeals is most evident in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
A)logos
B)ethos
C)pathos
D)logos and pathos
6
Which rhetorical device does Abraham Lincoln use in this passage from his Second Inaugural Address: "let us judge not, that we be not judged"?
A)personification
B)allusion
C)diction
D)imagery
7
The statement "As a cripple, I swagger" in Nancy Mairs's "On Being a Cripple" is an example of
A)symbolism.
B)satire.
C)alliteration.
D)irony.
8
How does George Orwell give dignity to the elephant's death in "Shooting an Elephant"?
A)by describing the death in respectful diction
B)by opening the essay with the elephant's death
C)by including a flashback to a happier time in the elephant's life
D)by using Latin terms to describe the elephant
9
Why did Plato use the analogy of a cave instead of a dreamlike sleep or a house with no windows?
A)The word "cave" was easy to understand by other cultures.
B)The word "cave" has a negative connotation.
C)The word "cave" translated into Greek means "unenlightened."
D)Most people lived in caves during Plato's time.
10
How does Jonathan Swift satirically neutralize anger toward the persona in "A Modest Proposal"?
A)The persona is revealed as an inarticulate dandy.
B)The persona is revealed to be from Ireland.
C)The persona is revealed as unable to benefit because he has no children.
D)The persona is identified as a Catholic deacon.
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