Rhetorical Devices

What rhetorical device is characterized by the omission of conjunctions between clauses?

• asyndeton

• anaphora

• polysyndeton

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What rhetorical device is characterized by the use of similar grammatical structures in successive clauses or phrases?

• metonymy

• parallelism

• paradox

• zeugma

What rhetorical device is a statement that seems contradictory but, nonetheless, expresses some sort of truth?

• juxtaposition

• paradox

• antithesis

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

When an author/artist, etc... purposely puts two ideas, images, etc... next to each other for the purpose of comparison and contrast, it is called...

• parallelism

• juxtaposition

• metonymy

• polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The use of many coordinating conjunctions between clauses is called...

• polysyndeton

• paradox

• zeugma

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

When two contradictory ideas are juxtaposed and expressed in parallel structure it is called...

• asyndeton

• antithesis

• paradox

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

When one word modifies two different words in two different ways it is called....

• metonymy

• zeugma

• antithesis

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

When two contradictory words are placed right next to each other it is called....

• oxymoron

• polysyndeton

• antithesis

• zeugma

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The repetition of words or phrases in successive clauses or sentences is called...

• asyndeton

• polysyndeton

• paradox

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely related is called...

• zeugma

• simile

• personification

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4