Glossary of Literary Terms- Rhetorical Devices

Match the words and defintions.

• having the primary purpose of teaching

• argument

• insecure or overly sentimental quality intended to evoke pity

• didactic

• a statement of the meaning or main point

• bathos

• comparing or contrasting

• hypothetical question

• a question that raises a hypothesis

• juxtaposition

Match the following

• literary techniques used to heighten the effectiveness of expression

• rhetoric

• an excessive display of learning or scholarship

• pathos

• a question asked for effect

• rhetorical devices

• the art of presenting ideas in a clear, effective, and persuasive manner

• pedantic

• causes a reader to feel some kind of way

• rhetorical question

The following is an example of which literary term:

What is the meaning of life?

• rhetorical question

• hypothetical question

• juxtaposition

• rhetoric

The following is an example of which literary term?

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

• rhetorical question

• hypothetical question

• juxtaposition

• rhetoric

The following is an example of which literary term?

What if brown cows produced chocolate milk?

• rhetorical question

• hypothetical question

• juxtaposition

• rhetoric

The following is an example of which literary term?

Atticus's closing arguments

• rhetorical question

• hypothetical question

• juxtaposition

• rhetoric

The following statement is an example of what literary term?

The ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) commercials

• pathos

• bathos

• argument

• didactic

The following statement is an example of what literary term?

Why are people born? Why do they die? And why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

• pathos

• bathos

• argument

• didactic

The following statement is an example of what literary term?

Aesop's fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf

• pathos

• bathos

• argument

• didactic

The following statement is an example of what literary term?

Tom Robinson is innocent and should be free to return to his family.

• pathos

• bathos

• argument

• didactic