English 2: Rhetorical Devices

English 2: Rhetorical Devices

KG - University

25 Qs

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English 2: Rhetorical Devices

English 2: Rhetorical Devices

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English

KG - University

Practice Problem

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CCSS
RL.2.6, RL.3.10, RL.1.4

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Identify the rhetorical device in the following quote from Brutus's funeral speech:
"Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?" (III.ii.24-26)

Metaphor
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Identify the rhetorical device used by the Cobbler in the following passage:
Marullus: But what trade art thou? Answer me directly.
Cobbler: A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.
(I.i.12-15)

Hyperbole
Metaphor
Pun
Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Identify the rhetorical device used in the following lines from Flavius:
"Let no images be hung with Caesar's tropies. I'll about and drive away the vulgar from the streets. So do you too, where you perceive them thick. These growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,, Who else would soar above the view of men And keep us all in servile fearfulness." (I.i.73-80)

Understate-ment
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Identify the rhetorical device in the following line spoken by the Soothsayer:
"Beware the ides of March" (I.ii.27).

Foreshad-owing
Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Identify the rhetorical device used in the following line spoken by Marullus:
"You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome..." (I.i.39-40)

Understate ment
Onomatopoeia
Pun
Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Identify the rhetorical device used in the following lines by Brutus:
"Let's kill him boldly but not wrathfully. Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds." (II.i.185)

Simile
Understate ment
Hyperbole
Pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Identify the rhetorical device in the following lines spoken by Artemidorus as he prepares to warn Caesar:
"If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live; if not, the Fates with traitors do contrive" (II.iii.15-16).

Personification
Pun
Verbal irony
Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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