Rhetorical Devices and Vocab Unit 1

Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sequence is...

• Alliteration

• Illuminati

• Parallelism

• Consonance

An example of Anaphora is

• "To those old allies"

  "To those new states"

  "To those people"

• I am Titanium.

• "Four score and seven years ago..."

• The steady spread of the deadly atom.

A metaphor is...

• implied comparison through figurative language, not literal, use of words

• The arrangement of words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures placed side by side.

• repetitive

• A statement that seems self-contradictory

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Parallelism

"Only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed."

• Metaphor

• Pardox

• Anastrohpe

• Explicit

Identify the sentence type:

I love going fishing, but it is too hot to fish today.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Fragment

Identify the type of sentence:

I need to take my car to get fixed, so I have to leave early today.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Fragment

Identify the type of sentence.

I went to the store today.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Fragment

"Let us go forth to lead the land we love..."

• Alliteration

• Anastrophe

• Assonance

• Parallelism

"Ask not," and "dare not" from JFK's speech are examples of...

• Anastrophe

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

• Syllable