Rhetorical Strategies Quiz

". . . my life, for the most part, has been very stale and colorless. Dead, I mean. The world has always been an empty place to me. I was incapable of enjoying even the simplest things. I felt dead in everything I did. . . . But then it changed . . . The night I killed that man"

(The Secret History, by Donna Tartt)

What does this reveal about the character's voice?

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CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Chicken and chunks of orange cooked in a cream sauce laid on a bed of pearly white grain, tiny green peas and onions, rolls shaped like flowers, and for dessert, a pudding the color of honey. I try to imagine assembling this meal myself back home. Chickens are too expensive, but I could make do with a wild turkey. I’d need to shoot a second turkey to trade for an orange. Goat’s milk would have to substitute for cream. We can grow peas in the garden. I’d have to get wild onions in the woods.

(The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins)

What two things are being compared? Why has the author decided to use juxtaposition?

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.3

Montag stopped eating … he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house.

(Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury)

What is the allusion? What is the author trying to imply?

“I ran all the way to the main gate, and then I waited a second till I got my breath. I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I’m quite a heavy smoker, for one thing—that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year. That’s also how I practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. I’m pretty healthy though.” (The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger)

What 2 words indicate ambiguity?

• t.b.

• they

• thing

• here

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CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

“Ross: That now

Sweno, the Norways’ king, craves composition:

Nor would we deign him burial of his men

Till he disbursed at Saint Colme’s inch

Ten thousand dollars to our general use.”

(Act 1 Scene 2, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare)

Identify the anachronism used in the passage.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

… and he himself must speak through, saying thus, or to the same defect.

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare)

What rhetorical strategy is being used here?

• aphorism

• malapropism

• anachronism

• juxtaposition

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

If you prick us, do we not bleed?

If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison

us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not

revenge?

(Act 3 Scene 1, Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare)

What message is the author trying to convey through the use of rhetorical questions?

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

What is the message the author is trying to convey through this thesis?

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

“Life is a tale told by an idiot – full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” (Macbeth, by William Shakespeare)

This is an example of which rhetorical strategy?

• allusion

• invective language

• theme-thesis

• aphorism

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Ted perches himself on the corner of the table. "I mean, don't you think it's funny that we've never hooked up? Homecoming might be fate bringing us together. I mean, I've always thought you and I would make a good --"

"Dude!" Matthew calls out, cupping his hands. "Let's go!"

Ted shakes his head. "Whatever. I talk to you later, Margo."

(The List, by Siobhan Vivian)

Who is the intended audience? How do you know?

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CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6