Rhetorical Device and Fig Lang Practice

The sentence below is an example of _____________________.

"Their friendship endured in spite of arguments, boyfriends, distance.

• Asyndeton

• Polysyndeton

• Climactic Order

• Parallelism

The sentence below is an example of ___________________.

"Value-judgements are founded on the study of literature; the study of literature can never be founded on value-judgements."

• Parallelism

• Balanced Sentence

• Chiasmus

• Inverted Sentence

The sentence below is an example of ____________________.

"Her ideas were brilliant because they were thorough. Her ideas were brilliant because they included everyone. Her ideas were brilliant because they were simple."

• Tricolon

• Rule of Three

• Anaphora

• Anastrophe

A prescription drug commercial featuring a doctor uses this appeal...

• Ethos
• Pathos
• Logos
• Rhetoric 

The NEW Subway wrap is the single greatest thing in the world! Get one today!

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

When your friend is trying to convince you to do something and he says, “Come on, what’s the worst that could happen?” he’s using what kind of rhetorical device to try to convince you?

• Rhetorical Question
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Euphemism

 “Mom, did you know that, according to newsweek.com, having a cell phone at school does not lead to lower grades. A study of 1,700 high school students found that there is absolutely no correlation between these two things. I can have my phone without my grades suffering.”

• ethos
• logos 
• pathos

What type of rhetorical device is used here?

"Don't worry about passing your driver's test... It'll be a breeze!"

• Simile

• Analogy

• Metaphor

• Allusion

While parking, you scrape lots of paint off the side of your door. If you wanted to make an understatement you might say:

• "Oh well, it's only a small scratch!"

• "My car is literally undriveable now!"

• "Ugh, this is as bad as being eaten by a bear!"

• "Could this day get any worse?!"

Repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses to add emphasis

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• polysyndeton

• analogy