Critical Vocabulary Set 5

Many are called, but few are chosen.

• Apostrophe

• Antithesis

• Personification

• Hyperbole

__________________ means: two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

• apposition

• antimetabole

• parallelism

• antithesis

What rhetorical device is being used in the following quote:

"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..."

• antimetabole

• epistrophe

• anaphora

• rhetorical question

A scheme in which the author introduces words or concepts in a particular order then later repeats those terms or similar ones in reversed or backwards order. 

• Allusion
• Chiasmus
• Juxtaposition
• Climax

Example: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

• Allusions
• juxtaposition
• chiasmus
• alliteration

SPOT THE DEVICE:

"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"

• anaphora

• epiphora

• antithesis

• juxtaposition

SPOT THE DEVICE:

“I wore a sweater, and a hat, and a scarf, and a pair of boots, and mittens.”

• asyndeton

• polysyndeton

• anaphora

• metonymy

Example: "There is darkness and light within all of us."

• metaphor
• allusion
• juxtaposition
• alliteration

Placing side by side two contradictory words that make logical sense when explained.

• paradox
• hyperbole
• personification 
• oxymoron 

Placing two contradictory phrases or ideas that, through deeper analysis, make logical sense. 

• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron 
• paradox
• allusion