Rhetorical Devices and Appeals Quiz
Authored by Courtney Carreon
English
10th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices?
A. Understatement
B. Simile
C. Oxymoron
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Using several words near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device?
A. Alliteration
B. Allusion
C. Anaphora
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.L.6.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices?
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.11-12.6
CCSS.L.9-10.6
CCSS.W.9-10.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 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
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.2.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence is which of the following rhetorical devices?
Tags
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.2.4
6.
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 made to past events or figures, but sometimes made to current famous people or events.
A. A. Imagery
B. Alliteration
C. Rhetoric
D. Allusion
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.L.7.5A
CCSS.RI.8.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
All’s fair in love and war
The above is an example of a(n)...
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
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