Rhetorical Strategies Quiz

The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structure.

• Parallelism

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Apostrophe

Expressing different ideas using the same words or images in order to reinforce concepts and unify the speech.

• Anaphora

• Repitition

• Juxtaposition

• Antimetabole

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate... leads to suffering!" --Master Yoda

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Anadiplosis

• Antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

The opposite of anaphora that involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences.

• Apostrphe

• Epistrophe

• Euphemism

• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A reference in literature to a familiar person, place, thing, or event.

• Consonance

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast.

• Anadiplosis

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply

• Anecdote

• Antidote

• Apostrophe

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.

• Anaphora

• Repitition

• Parallelism

• Anthropomorphism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A polite or mild word or expression used to refer to something embarrassing, taboo, or unpleasant.

• Euphemism

• Analogy

• Parallelism

• Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” -- JFK

• Imagery

• Analogy

• Anadiplosis

• Antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4