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Rhetorical Techniques Quiz

Authored by Morgan Denton

English

12th Grade

CCSS covered

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Rhetorical Techniques Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_______________ 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.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

repetition

parallelism

diction

hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Personification

Parallelism

Allusion

Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

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