Rhetorical Devices

Which of these is a rhetorical question:

• do birds fly?

• do you know what a phone is?

• did you do the hw?

• do you have a sister?

what is a hyperbole?

• an exaggeration

• an idiom

• a sound like BOOM or KAPAW

• the opposite of an oxymoron.

What is an anaphora

• a question asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information.

• repeating a word

• underestimating something

The sentence "I slept for a week after that tough practice" is an example of a.....

How are similes and metaphors different?

• All of the above.

• None of the above

• metaphors compare two things using like and as while similes compare two things without using like and as.

• Similes compare two things using like and as while metaphors compare two things without using like and as.

Which of these is a rhetorical device?

• Hyperbole

• Anaphora

• Oxymoron

• Anadiplosis

Continue this sentence to include the rhetorical device "anaphora": I kept on falling...

Which of these is an example of litotes?

• youre not wrong.

• the test is a piece of cake.

• im stuck in a pickle.

which of these is NOT an example of litotes?

• It’s no big deal, my dad just died.

• They dont seem the happiest couple around.

• Shes not ugly.

• the escaped prisoner was causing trouble again.