Rhetorical Devices
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English
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11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
___________________ means: a rhetorical device that uses a word in a new grammatical shape, often as a noun or a verb. Simply, it replaces one part of speech with another.
anthimeria
asyndeton
antimetabole
antithesis
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CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.
anaphora
epistrophe
rhetorical question
parallelism
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CCSS.RI. 9-10.8
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.11-12.8
CCSS.RI.8.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
__________________ means: two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.
apposition
antimetabole
parallelism
antithesis
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
________________ means: a noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it
parallelism
anaphora
apposition
rhetorical question
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CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern
anthimeria
parallelism
asyndeton
antimetabole
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
______________ means: omitting conjunctions such as “and” from a series of related clauses for rhetorical effect
asyndeton
anaphora
epistrophe
antimetabole
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
_________________ means: A phrase or sentence that is repeated in reverse order using the exact same words and grammatical pattern
asyndeton
rhetorical question
parallelism
antimetabole
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
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