Rhetorical Devices Part 1

Analogy can be used to describe unfamiliar concepts by comparing them to something familiar.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Many are called, but few are chosen is an example of --

• literature

• antithesis

• epistrophe

• rhetorical question

Two opposite ideas in the same sentence (i.e. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...")

• Analogy

• Rhetorical Question
• Language

• Antithesis

Clauses that may begin each phrase of a piece the same (ex: Alice ran into the room, into the garden, and into our hearts)

• Antithesis
• Parallelism
• Analogy

• Rhetorical question

"He walked to the store; he walked to the library; he walked to the apartment"

• parallelism and anaphora

• antithesis
• question and answer

• analogy

___ means a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

^{What rhetorical devices is being used?}

Are you going to stand by and let the power lines be built in our backyards?

• analogy

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

• antimetabole

^{What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:}

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

• antithesis

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

• question

____ means repetition of one or more words at the END of successive phrases or clauses

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

___ means the repetition of a word or phrase at the BEGINNING of successive clauses or phrases

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• parallelism