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Rhetorical Device Practice

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English

11th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

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Rhetorical Device Practice
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The following sentence is an example of _______________.


"Most hockey games lead to broken ribs or sprained knees or dislocated shoulders -- or even worse."

Asyndeton

Polysyndeton

Chiamus

Freight Train

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The sentence below is an example of _____________________.


"Their friendship endured in spite of arguments, boyfriends, distance.

Asyndeton

Polysyndeton

Climactic Order

Parallelism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The sentence below is an example of ___________________.


"Value-judgements are founded on the study of literature; the study of literature can never be founded on value-judgements."

Parallelism

Balanced Sentence

Chiasmus

Inverted Sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The sentence below is an example of ____________________.


"Through the broken windows of the house entered the burglars."

Parallelism

Chiasmus

Balanced Sentence

Inverted Sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The sentence below is an example of ________________.


"Mosquitoes. Blackflies. Bears. That was all the information I needed to decline the invitation to go camping."

Polysyndeton

Asyndeton

Periodic Sentence.

Sentence Fragment

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The sentence below is an example of ____________________.


"...it was the spring of hope; it was the winter of despair."

Parallelism

Inverted Sentence

Chiasmus

Balanced

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The sentence below is an example of ____________________.


"Her ideas were brilliant because they were thorough. Her ideas were brilliant because they included everyone. Her ideas were brilliant because they were simple."

Tricolon

Rule of Three

Anaphora

Anastrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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