Rhet Quiz 4

A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentence or lines

• poetic device

• parallelism

• persona

• pun

The fictional mask or narrator that tells the story.

• parallelism

• persona

• pun

• chiasmus

“Five years have passed/ Five summers, with the length of/ Five long Winters! And again I hear these waters…”- William Wordsworth in Tintern Abbey

• anaphora

• chiasmus

• zeugma

• antithesis

You are easy on the eyes but heavy on the heart.

• anaphora

• antithesis

• chiasmus

• zeugma

A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat

• parallelism

• pun

• chiasmus

• zeugma

The door of the old house creaked slowly open when the wind picked up and then slammed with a whoosh.

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

Scary Movie, Vampires Suck, and sometimes Saturday Night Live skits are examples of this.

• parody

• pun

• parallelism

• persona

I tripped over the banana peel and my words

• zeugma

• antithesis

• anaphora

• chiasmus

When I can’t think of any appropriate silly examples (for instance, after long nights grading AP essays), I try standing on my head.

• parenthetical idea

• zeugma

• antithesis

• persona

Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns

• parallelism

• assonance

• consonance

• polysyndeton