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Rhetorical devices

Authored by Paul Houlihan

English

11th - 12th Grade

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Rhetorical devices
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Using several word near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device?                                    

A. Alliteration 
B. Allusion
C. Anaphora

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

*Great Depression
*Jumbo shrimp
*Cruel to be Kind
 *Pain for pleasure
*Clearly confused
*Act naturally
*Painfully beautiful

A. tricolon

B. Paradox
C. Oxymoron

anadiplosis

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

A. Imagery 
B. Personification 
C. Rhetoric 
E. Rhetorical Question 

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

"To think on death it is a misery,/ T o think on life it is a vanity;/ to think on the world verily it is,/ to think that here man hath no perfect bliss.' Peachum

A. Exemplum
B. Hyperbole
C. Anaphora

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

He refuses to donate any money to the charity.  He is such a scrooge. 
This statement is a(n)...

allusion
juxtapose 
simile
anecdote

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

To make a point a point by exaggerating is which of the following rhetorical devices?

hyperbole
simile
allusion
logos

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Media Image

This is an example of...

ethos 
logos 
pathos

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