Rhetorical Devices PPT.pdf

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

Multiple Choice

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

Identify the metaphor.

• My heart is a necessary organ.

• My heart is like a muscle.

• My heart is like a pump pushing blood all throughout my body.

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.

Multiple Choice

What are the following examples of:

jumbo shrimp,

exact copy,

small crowd,

passive aggressive

• allusion

• oxymoron

• simile

• anaphora

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical device is this:

“During the holidays, she acted like a Scrooge, purchasing presents only for herself”

• parallelism

• hyperbole

• allusion

• oxymoron

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical device is the following example? 

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

• anaphora

• oxymoron

• allusion

• simile

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical device is the following example? 

"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

• juxtaposition

• metaphor

• allusion

• parallelism

Multiple Choice

What are the following examples of

“Sanitation engineer”

  “Pre-owned vehicle”

“Economically disadvantaged”

• allusion

• oxymoron

• euphemism

• parallelism

Multiple Choice

Which rhetorical device is the following example?   

 "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

• anaphora

• juxtaposition

• allusion

• epitrophe

Multiple Select

Which TWO rhetorical devices do you see in the following example:

“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 epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…

• juxtaposition

• simile

• anaphora

• allusion