Rhetorical Devices

“She was as fast as lighting” is a sentence that uses which rhetorical device?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Climax

• Alliteration

Which of the following is an example of an anaphora?

• They want money. We need money. Nobody has money.

• Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers

• Fish swim. Fish eat. Fish splash.

• What do you mean?

What is the function of a rhetorical question?

• create mental images

• to make the reader reflect on something

• humorous effect

• to compare two aspects

Who wouldn’t want to see The Great Wall of China?

• Inversion

• Irony

• Personification

• Rhetorical question

He lost his car, his job and his house.

• Parallelism

• Inversion

• Climax

• Neologism

Out in a lovely, lovely country town.

• Repetition

• Parallelism

• Climax

• Anaphora

I am going to visit my grandma (my dad's mom) today.

• Parenthesis

• Irony

• Repetition

• Alliteration

My mother makes me happy.

• Exaggeration

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Repetition

Another expression for "exaggeration" is "euphemism".

• Correct

• Wrong

Where can we find rhetorical devices?

• in speeches

• in everyday language

• in poetry

• in stories