Rhetorical Devices

What is the best definition for charged language?

• repetition of a specific phrase to create rhythm or structure

• referring to a well-known person, book, or institution.

• word choice used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

• a question that has a very obvious answer, meant to further the argument

What is the best definition for an analogy?

• comparing two unlike things to add emphasis

• word choice used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

• repeating one word or phrase to add emphasis

• comparing two extreme opposite ideas

What is the best definition for repetition?

• repeating a specific phrase to add rhythm or structure

• repeating a word or phrase to add emphasis

• word choice that is used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

• referring to well-known people, books, or institutions

What is the best definition for parallelism?

• referring to a well-known person, book, or institution

• word choice that is used to make the reader feel a specific emotion

• comparing two extreme opposites for emphasis

• a specific phrase that is used to create rhythm or structure

What is the best definition for allusion?

• a comparison of two extreme opposites

• Referring to a well-known person, novel, or insitution

• Word choice that makes the reader feel a specific emotion

• A word or phrase that is repeated to add emphasis

What is the best definition for antithesis?

• Comparing two extreme opposites for emphasis

• Referring to a well-known person, novel, or institution

• Repeating a word or phrase for emphasis

• A question that has an obvious answer, only used to further an argument

What is the best definition for rhetorical questions?

• Repeating a specific phrase to add structure or rhythm.

• Repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.

• Comparing two unlike things for emphasis.

• A question that has an obvious answer, only used to further an argument

Which of the following is an example of charged language?

• "I feel that you are men of genuine good will."

• "Why direct action?"

• Thomas Jefferson said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal."

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"The nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

• analogy

• charged language

• parallelism

• antithesis

Which rhetorical device is utilized in the following:

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

• analogy

• charged language

• repetition

• parallelism