Rhetorical Techniques Quiz

How can figurative language be used as a rhetorical appeal?

• using the figurative language to be convincing in some way

• imagery, similes, and metaphors are always rhetorical

• it can't be

• using the figurative language to sound beautiful

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

• diction

• bandwagon appeal

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

• repetition

• parallelism

• diction

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

• oxymoron

• parallelism

• diction

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What rhetorical device is being used in the following quote:

"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..."

• diction

• oxymoron

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote: "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?"

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

• oxymoron

• bandwagon appeal

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Dunkin Doughnuts, Coca-Cola and Bed Bath and Beyond are examples of which rhetorical device?

• Personification

• Parallelism

• Allusion

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A rhetorical question requires an answer.

• No

• Yes

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

"Free at last!  Free at last!  Thank God Almighty, we are free at last" is an example of which rhetorical device? 

• Anecdote

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Kairos

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

_____ affects the emotions of the audience.

• pathos
• ethos

• logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5