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Rhetorical Terms- Quiz #1

Authored by Alex Marx

English

11th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

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Rhetorical Terms- Quiz #1
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is which of the following rhetorical devices?

simile

alliteration

Invective

Analogy

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Using several word near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device?

Alliteration

Anaphora

Allusion

analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"To think on death it is a misery,/ T o think on life it is a vanity;/ to think on the world verily it is,/ to think that here man hath no perfect bliss.' Peachum

Exemplum

Anaphora

Hyperbole

Antecedent

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Talking to someone who is not there, dead, not human is which rhetorical device?

Imagery

Rhetoric

Alliteration

Apostrophe

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure. Often the allusions made are to past events or figures, but sometimes allusions are made to current famous people or events.

Imagery

Rheotric

Anecdote

Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is “if it ain't broke, don't fix it" an example of?

Allusion

Aphorism

Anecdote

Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Why do author's use this device?

An anaphora is used to appeal to the emotions of the audience, in order to persuade, inspire, motivate, and encourage them

An anaphora is used to appeal to the credibility of the speaker, in order to persuade, inspire, motivate, and encourage them.

An anaphora is used to appeal to the logic of the audience, in order to persuade, inspire, motivate, and encourage them.

An anaphora is used to sound really cool.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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