RHETORIC SPEECH

RHETORIC SPEECH

Stéphanie Bertherat - HES SO Valais

Multiple Choice

When a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure.

• A. Imagery

• B. Alliteration

• C. Rhetoric

• D. Allusion

Multiple Choice

Talking to someone who is not there, dead, not human is a/an ... ?

• A. Imagery

• B. Alliteration

• C. Rhetoric

• D. Apostrophe

Multiple Choice

The repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence is a/an ...?

• A. Metaphor

• B. Satire

• C. Anaphora

Multiple Choice

A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is a/an ... ?

• A. Imagery

• B. Personification

• E. Rhetorical Question

Multiple Choice

*Great Depression

*Cruel to be Kind

*Pain for pleasure

*Clearly confused

*Painfully beautiful

... are all examples of:

• A. Anecdote

• B. Paradox

• C. Oxymoron

Multiple Choice

Using several words near that start with the same sound is a/an ... ?

• A. Alliteration

• B. Allusion

• C. Anaphora

Multiple Choice

A statement that seems impossible because the ideas are opposites, but have an element of truth is a/an ... ?

• A. Paradox

• B. Hyperbole

• C. Satire

Multiple Choice

The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

• A. Paradox

• B. Juxtaposition

• E. Satire

Multiple Choice

A statement that is not good enough to explain how good, bad, or impressive something really is, is a/an ...?

• A. Understatement/Meiosis

• B. Personification

• C.Paralellism

Multiple Choice

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is a/an... ?

• A. Understatement

• B. Simile

• C. Oxymoron

Multiple Choice

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is a/an ... ?

• A.Simile

• B.Invective

• C. Alliteration

• D. Analogy

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

Plato