English 9 Second Semester Exam Prep

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. This is an example of which rhetorical device?

• Metaphor

• Parallelism

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?

We got a new Einstein in school today.

• Allusion

• Science is awful.

• Simile

• Metaphor

As a doctor, I can say that this product will certainly improve your health.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

A metaphor uses the words like or as.

• True

• False

This is an example of which rhetorical device? "Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better."

• Antithesis

• Asyndeton

• Allusion

• Anaphora

The use of logic and evidence to persuade.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

What is alliteration?

• Repetition

• The repetition of the beginning consonant of several words in a sentence.

• The repetition of assonance in multiple words.

• A repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or lines.

The following is an example of which rhetorical device?

"The war is inevitable-- and let it come!"

• Simile

• Call to arms

• Let's go to war!

• Metaphor

Who surrounds themselves with animals?

• Calypso

• Hermes

• Odysseus

• Circe

If a story referenced Apollo 13 that would be an example of which rhetorical device?

• Call to Arms

• History repeating itself

• Allusion

• Metaphor