Rhetorical Terms Review

This offensive cartoon illustrates​ ​​ (a)   satire.​

• Juvenalian
• Menippean
• Horatian
• Allegorian

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

In this typically twisty short story from Roald Dahl, a betrayed housewife kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb. When the cops arrive at her place to solve the crime, she cooks the lamb and feeds it to them, effectively making them dispose of the evidence. 

It’s a double case of ___ irony: when you expect the housewife to be heartbroken about her husband's desire to separate, she abruptly kills him. When you expect her to break down and confess her crime, she calls the Police and blatantly serves them the incriminated weapon. 

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CCSS.L.8.5A

The Sneetches is a book about two kinds of Sneetches: those with stars on their bellies and those without stars on their bellies. The Star-Belly Sneetches don’t like playing with the Plain-Belly Sneetches. The Star-Belly Sneetches think they are better than the Plain-Belly Sneetches. Along comes an entrepreneur who, in exchange for money, will place stars on the Plain-Belly Sneetches bellies. This sets up an arms race in an effort to remain special and superior; the Star-Belly Sneetches pay the entrepreneur to remove their stars from their bellies. This leads to confusion about who had stars and who didn’t. In the end, the Star-Belly Sneetches and the Plain-Belly Sneetches realize that they are all Sneetches and that they are all the same.

Which rhetorical term best describes this book?

• allegory

• satire

• irony

• fable

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CCSS.L.5.5

An ugly, warty frog sat on his lily pad enjoying the sunshine. Another frog hopped along and said, “wow, you are hideous! There is no way you will ever find a mate!” Just then, a beautiful princess came to the pond, scooped up the ugly frog, and planted a big kiss on his warty nose. He instantly turned into a tall, handsome prince, and walked off hand in hand with the princess as the other frog watched with his mouth wide in astonishment. Never judge a book by its cover.

The text above is an example of a fable because it ​​ ​ (a)   ​ ​ (b)  

• uses humanized animals
• has a moral/ teaches a lesson
• makes fun of a person, idea, or institution
• is a story within a story

In The Cabin in the Woods, a group of scientists lure five archetypal teens to an abandoned cabin to stage an ancient ritual. We know the five teens are part of a ritual, but they do not.

This movie summary is an example of ___ irony.

• verbal

• dramatic

• situational

• comedic

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CCSS.L.8.5A

This offensive cartoon illustrates​ ​​ ​ ​ (a)   satire.​

• Menippean
• Horatian
• Allegorian
• Juvenalian

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which of the following excerpts best demonstrates Juvenalian Satire?

• "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and 60 wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust".

  -A Modest Proposal

• "It was all very well to say "Drink me," but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. "No, I'll look first," she said, "and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not"; for she had read several nice little stories3 about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison," it is most certain to disagree with you sooner or later."

  -Alice in Wonderland

• Tom plays a trick on Jim as he sleeps, hanging his hat above him on a tree. In an attempt to explain what happed to his hat, Jim says, “Afterwards Jim said the witches be witched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it.”

  -The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This SNL skit best demonstrates ___ satire.

• Allegorian

• Horatian

• Juvenalian

• Menippean

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The Lord of the Flies explores what happens when a group of boys is stranded on an island with no adults. As they strive to set up some sense of society, they realize that they also have a strong pull towards transforming into savages. This is the main ___ of this book, that every human person has an impulse both towards civilization and savagery. 

• satire

• fable

• allegory

• irony

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Which rhetorical device best describes this cartoon?

• What is this obsession with eating babies?!

• allegory

• irony

• satire

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6