Rhetorical Devices

Rhetorical Devices

Multiple Choice

The following are examples of which rhetorical device?

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small crowd

passive aggressive

disgustingly delicious

• juxtaposition

• oxymoron

• personification

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Name the rhetorical device:

"During the holidays, she acted like a Scrooge, purchasing presents only for herself."

• allusion

• anaphora

• simile

• understatement

Multiple Choice

Name the rhetorical device:

"We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers -- in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.”

—George Bush, Address to the Nation on Terrorism

• parallelism

• repitition

• personification

• juxtaposition

Multiple Choice

In 1982, after all four engines of British Airways Flight 9 failed 38,000 feet over the Atlantic due to volcanic ash, the captain of the flight made the following announcement to the passengers:

“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.”

• juxtaposition

• understatement

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Name the rhetorical device:

O “Sanitation engineer”

O “Pre-owned vehicle”

O “Economically disadvantaged”

• oxymoron

• euphemism

• metaphor

• personification

Multiple Choice

"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.”

--Judd Nelson as John Bender in The Breakfast Club

• epistrophe

• anaphora

• oxymoron

• personification

Multiple Select

Name the rhetorical device:

"We've got the iPod, the best music player in the world. We've got the Nanos, brand new models, colors are back. We've got the amazing new iPod Shuffle."

• anaphora

• hyperbole

• juxtaposition

• euphemism

Multiple Select

"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet,

And the river jumps over the mountain

And the salmon sing in the street,

I'll love you till the ocean

Is folded and hung up to dry

And the seven stars go squawking

Like geese about the sky.”

--From "As I Walked Out One Evening" by W.H. Auden:

• hyperbole

• anaphora

• personification

• simile

Multiple Select

Check all of the rhetorical devices this quote contains:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness[....], it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…

• anaphora

• parallelism

• oxymoron

• juxtaposition

• metaphor