Honors Rhetoric Quiz

repetition of consonant sounds.

• onomatapoeia

• alliteration

• allusion

• concrete

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event...

• alliteration

• personification

• allusion

• audience contact

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices?

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification
• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

what is a synecdoche?

• serious piece involving moral or spiritual advice

• figure of speech where a part equals the whole

• the way the author feels about the piece

• when the main idea in a sentence comes before a clause

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

a form of a regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or strategically placed paragraphs

• syntax
• anaphora
• repetition
• loose/periodic sentence

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

“I said, ‘Who killed him?’ and he said ‘I don’t know who killed him, but he’s dead all right,’ and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water.”

• Polysyndeton

• Anaphora

• Asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Which sentence is an example of an asyndeton?

• You can eat your cake with a spoon or fork.
• My dog enjoys being bathed but hates getting his nails trimmed.
• My dinner is delicious, warm, ready to eat.
• My brother refuses to eat peas, nor will he touch carrots.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

6. Well, releasing your attack dogs on those Christmas carolers wasn't the most neighborly thing to do

• Understatement
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Speech or way of talking that makes a comparison between 2 things that are SEEMINGLY dissimilar. Indirectly done.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbol

• None of the Above

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Something that represents something else by resembling it, or association with it, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbol

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D