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Rhetorical Devices

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9th - 11th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The technique or skill of persuading through your choice of words is which of the following rhetorical devices?

A. Alliteration 
B.   Metaphor  
C. Rhetorical 
D. Allusion 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

A.Simile
B.Invective
C. Alliteration
D. Analogy

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

A. Understatement 
B. D. Simile 
C. Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A statement that is not good enough to explain how good, bad, or impressive something really is? 

A. Understatement/Meiosis
 
B. Personification
C.Paralellism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

A. Paradox
B. Juxtaposition 
E. Satire 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A statement that seems impossible because the ideas are opposites, but have an element of truth is which of the following rhetorical devices? 

A. Paradox
B. 
B. Hyperbole 
C. Satire 

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Using several word near each other that start with the same sound is which rhetorical device?                                    

A. Alliteration 
B. Allusion
C. Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

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