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Creative Writing - Rhetorical Devices

Authored by Ted GarnerHS

English

10th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

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Creative Writing - Rhetorical Devices
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A recurring device, formula or sutuation that often serves as the signal for the appearance of a character or event

epiphany

Bildungstoman

Motif

foil

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"If I know one thing, it's that I know nothing"

This statement is a clear example of ....

allusion

paradox

hyperbole

allegory

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A person falls out of a high window, and just before he is crushed on the pavement, an open flatbed truck filled with mattresses drives by and catches him.

This is an example of

hyperbole

bildungsroman

paradox

deus ex machina

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

the author's choice of words

motif

perspective

diction

hyperbol

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The opening scene depicts the main character's death, and narrative proceeds in flashbacks that tell the story of how the character meets his demise.

This is an example of .....

in medias res

epigraph

motif

persona

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story, and who may, or may not, share the values of the actual author.

perspective

paradox

persona

epiphany

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Huckleberry Finn is an example of __________________ because the thirteen year old title character experiences moral and psychological growth as he travels down the Mississippi River with the slave Jim.

paradox

bildungsroman

allegory

in medias res

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

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