Rhetorical Device Definitions Quiz

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

• rhetorical synopsis
• rhetorical question 
• allusion
• repetition

PARALLELISM

• Using words or phrases with similar structure
• Using words that imitate the sounds they describe
• Makes an idea seem less important than it really is
• Words or phrases that repeat in reverse order

repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of a word

• alliteration

• assonance

• parallelism

• metaphor

repetition of phrase at beginning of a line

• anaphora

• alliteration

• assonance

• antistrophe

Repetition of phrase at the end of line

• anaphora

• antithesis

• antistrophe

• alliteration

Two opposite ideas that creates contrast

• antithesis

• metaphor

• simile

• anaphora

Makes the audience think you are talking to them (we, our)

• allusion

• rhetorical question

• analogy

• personal pronouns

A reference to something such as the Bible, Greek Mythology, a movie, or literature.

• anaphora

• simile

• allusion

• aphorism

extreme exaggeration

• connotation

• tone

• idiom

• hyperbole

"The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

• antistrophe

• antithesis

• anaphora

• parallel structure