Rhetorical Terms Practice

Say whether the following are assonance, alliteration or onomatopoeia

Ruth ran rapidly to the river.

• assonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

wally willow whittled and whistled

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet which of these lines contains an allusion?

• And therefore have I little talked of love

• Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death

• For Venus smiles not in a house of tears

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

From somewhere far beyond, the flag of fate's caprice unfurled...

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

• None of the Above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Big bumbling bumblebees rode light, lilting breezes

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• None of the Above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Diction is the literary term that means

• The connections we have with words
• An author's choice of words
• The definition of words
• The common way of speaking with friends

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

The THEME of a work is 

• the main character
• the title
• an idea that is dealt with
• the level of diction

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Any language that appeals to the senses is called ___.

• denotation
• connotation
• irony
• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

a comparison between two unlike things

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a comparison between two unlike things using like or as

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4