Rhetorical Devices

The term that means understatement that negates is

• Anachronism
• Litotes
• Understatement
• Asyndeton

The term that means to purposely leave out conjunctions is

• Asyndeton
• Polysyndeton
• Anachronism
• Euphemism

The term that means a repetition of vowel sounds is

• Allusion
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Anadiplosis

The term that means a reference to a well known person, place or thing is

• Parallelism
• Allusion
• Diction
• Anachronism

The following is an example of what term: Piggy the Panda paid for a purple popsicle.

• Irony
• Anadiplosis
• Alliteration
• Syntax

The following is an example of what term:  The man went to the store and bought apples and bananas and legos and bread and chapstick.

• Connotation
• Oxymoron
• Asyndeton
• Polysyndeton

Martin Luther King Junior's use of the phrase "I have a dream" is an example of what strategy?

• Anaphora
• Chiasmus
• Litotes
• Asyndeton

Logos means....

• appealing to emotion
• appealing to logic
• appealing to credibility
• appealing to an author

Which one is NOT part of the rhetorical triangle

• audience
• subject
• speaker
• author

The reason an author writes a text is called....

• the audience
• the author's message
• the author's purpose
• the canon