Rhetorical Devices Examples

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

What rhetorical device is being used here in "The Bible?": "Is Anything To Difficult For The Lord?" (The Bible, Genesis 18:13).

• Rhetorical Question
• Rhetoric

Which rhetorical device is being used here? :
"Here comes the Helen of our school."

• Allusion
• Rhetoric
• Both Allusion and Rhetoric
• None of the above

In "Cry, The Beloved Country" by Alan Paton, the text states,
"His brother John, who was a carpenter, had gone there, and had a business of his own in Sophiatown, Johannesburg." (Paton, 36). What rhetorical device is the author trying to convey?

• Rhetoric
• Understatement 
• Polysyndenton
• Restatement