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Practice Rhetorical Devices Repetition Part 2

Authored by Kara Pickens

English

9th Grade - University

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Practice Rhetorical Devices Repetition Part 2
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish. (Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad)

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

"I don't want to live on in my work. I want to live on in my apartment." (Woody Allen)

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

"For the end of a theoretical science is truth, but the end of a practical science is performance." (Aristotle)

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good."

(Genesis 1:24-25 (KJV))

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

'Bad men live that they may eat and drink,

whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.'

Socrates (fifth century B.C.)

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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"We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us." - John McCain, "2008 Republican National Convention Speech"

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"There's no nation in the history of the world and no city that has seen more immigrants in less time than America. And people continue to come here in large, large numbers to seek freedom, opportunity, decency, civility." (Rudy Giuliani)

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