Rhetorical Devices Examples

Rhetorical Devices Examples

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English

KG - University

Hard

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Kara Hamilton

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" What rhetorical device is being used here?:
"Come, civil night, Thou sober-suited matron, all in black, and learn me how to lose a winning match." (Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 2, lines 10-12, page 154).
Diction
Paradox
Rhyme
Pathos

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

In "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, the text states, "The Jet bombers going over, going over, one two, one two..." (Bradbury, 13-14). What rhetorical device is he using?
Assonance
Aphorism
Repetition
Anaphora

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What rhetorical device is being used in the poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night", by Dylan Thomas?:
"
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light..."  (Thomas, 1).
Assonance
Repetition
Alliteration
Anaphora

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

"And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream." (Luther, 1). Which rhetorical device is being used here in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech?
Allusion
Repetition
Restatement
Diction

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What rhetorical device is being used here in "The Bible?":
“And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had.” (The Bible, Joshua 7:24).
Alliteration
Anecdote
Repetition
Polysyndenton

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Comrades," he said quietly, "do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and has overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!" he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder." (Orwell, 82). Which rhetorical device is being used here in Orwell's, "Animal Farm?"
Understatement
Hyperbole
Restatement
Rhetorical Questions

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What rhetorical device is being used here in "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee?: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (Lee, 30).
Aphorism
Repetition
Both A and B
None of the above

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