Rhetorical Devices and Appeals Quiz

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

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Using several words near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device?

• A. Alliteration

• B. Allusion

• C. Anaphora

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

• A. Imagery 
• B. Personification 
• C. Rhetoric 
• E. Rhetorical Question 

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"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

• A. Exemplum
• B. Hyperbole
• C. Anaphora

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• A. Metaphor 
• B. Satire 
• C. Anaphora 
• D. Irony 

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

All’s fair in love and war
The above is an example of a(n)...

• simile 
• metaphor
• juxtaposition
• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

He refuses to donate any money to the charity.  He is such a scrooge. 
This statement is a(n)...

• allusion
• juxtapose 
• simile
• anecdote

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“As a dental hygienist, I’ve seen what infection can do. That’s why I strongly recommend flossing daily.”

What kind of appeal is being made to the audience?

• ethical appeal

• logical appeal

• emotional appeal

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

“Mom, what if there is a gunman at school, and I have no way to communicate with you aside from my phone?”

What kind of appeal is being made to the audience?

• emotional appeal

• logical appeal

• ethical appeal

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5