Rhetorical Devices Quiz

What is a metaphor?

• An explicit comparison between different things or ideas

• An implicit comparison between different things or ideas

• The repetition of an initial sound in a sequence of words

• The repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words

What is an alliteration?

• An implicit comparison between different things or ideas

• The repetition of an initial sound in a sequence of words

• The repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words

• The use of words that sound like the noises they describe

What is an ellipse?

• The omission of essential grammatical elements or parts of the sentence

• The repetition of an initial sound in a sequence of words

• An implicit comparison between different things or ideas

• The use of words that sound like the noises they describe

What is a euphemism?

• The use of words that sound like the noises they describe

• An indirect word choice to refer to something unpleasant

• An implicit comparison between different things or ideas

• The omission of essential grammatical elements or parts of the sentence

What is a parallelism?

• The omission of essential grammatical elements or parts of the sentence

• An implicit comparison between different things or ideas

• The repetition of an initial sound in a sequence of words

• The repeated use of similarly constructed lines or sentences

What is a rhetorical question?

• A question asked to persuade and not meant as a genuine request for an answer

• The repeated use of similarly constructed lines or sentences

• An implicit comparison between different things or ideas

• The use of words that sound like the noises they describe

What is a hyperbole?

• An implicit comparison between different things or ideas

• An extreme exaggeration to emphasize something

• The use of words that sound like the noises they describe

• The repeated use of similarly constructed lines or sentences

What is an oxymoron?

• A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• The repetition of an initial sound in a sequence of words

• An implicit comparison between different things or ideas

• The use of words that sound like the noises they describe

What is a simile?

• An explicit comparison between different things or ideas using 'like' or 'as'

• An implicit comparison between different things or ideas

• The repetition of an initial sound in a sequence of words

• The repeated use of similarly constructed lines or sentences

Identify the device:

"All the world´s a stage and all the men and women merely players." W. Shakespeare