Rhetorical Devices

Match the following

• Understatement

• A brief reference to a famous person, event, or literary work.

• Juxtaposition

• A short, self-contained story with a message

• Anecdote

• Putting two contrasting elements together

• Hyperbole

• A deliberate exaggeration

• Allusion

• A statement that minimizes the effect of something

Name the rhetorical device:

"We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers -- in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.”

—George Bush, Address to the Nation on Terrorism

• Juxtaposition

• Parallelism

• Epistrophe

• Hyperbole

Which of the following is an example of a euphemism?

• Calling someone a lovely lady

• Telling someone that your grandfather "passed away"

• Exclaiming "I've told you a million times!"

• Ordering jumbo shrimp

There are two types of​ (a)   . ​ (b)   is when ​ (c)   are repeated at the beginning of a line, while ​ (d)   is when they are repeated at the ​ (e)   of a line.

• Repetition
• Anaphora
• words or phrases
• Epistrophe
• end
• Litote
• parallel
• structure

Match the following

• Oxymoron

• Successive words or phrases with a similar grammatical structure

• Repetition

• Saying something by negating its contrary

• Parallelism

• Repeating words or phrases to add emphasis

• Litote

• A combination of two opposite words

Which of the following does NOT compare two things

• Anecdote

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Analogy

A ​ (a)   is a type of ​ (b)   that says something by ​ (c)   its opposite. It must be a ​ (d)   statement.

• Litote
• understatement
• negating
• negative
• overstatement
• proving
• parallel

Match the following

• Personification

• "He was a real Romeo with the ladies"

• Analogy

• "The flame from the candle danced in the breeze."

• Hyperbole

• "Life is like a box of chocolates"

• Juxtaposition

• "I have the best team in the whole world!"

• Allusion

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

​ (a)   devices are used to create rhetorical ​ (b)   . For example, a speaker might use an ​ (c)   (device) to establish their ​ (d)   , which is an appeal to ​ (e)   (appeal).

• Rhetorical
• appeals
• Ethos
• credibility
• Pathos
• anecdote
• Literary
• statistics

Match the following

• Litote

• "One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world."

• Epistrophe

• "We have a small problem. All of our engines have failed. "

• Understatement

• "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"

• Euphemism

• "That was not my favorite way to spend an evening."

• Parallelism

• "Vertically challenged" instead of short